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A BRIEF HISTORY 


OF THE 

MAIN STREET 

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 

WITH 

INCIDENTS 

OF THE 

KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. 


James Marcus Newton. 

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To the Members of the 
Main Street Methodist Church, 

To the host of their devout friends, who, 
with them, meet in Christian 
Worship, 
and 

To the coming generations who shall 
succeed them, 

I subscribe this book, 

In glad confession of unspeakable obliga- 
tions and joys, 

In affectionate respect, 

And in honor and gratitude for inspir- 
ing friendship. 


PREFACE. 


In writing this very brief account from 
the origin to the present of a Church to 
which I have so recently Reen called to 
serve, and to study, it has been difficult to 
construct an unbroken history. Through 
the courtesy of the Rev. E. L. Shepherd, 
Conference Secretary, the minutes of the 
Kentucky Annual Conference have ben re- 
ferred to each year in succession from 1858. 
Hence the reader will find in the opening 
paragraph of the chapters those occurrences 
of the Conferences which are thought will 
add interest to the sketch, the places where 
the Conference sessions were held and the 
presiding Bishops. 

The division entitled, “Main Street Pul- 
pit,” contains two sermons from a series of 
the author’s, preached in Main Street, and 
inserted in this work by request, and which 


appear here in the same form as delivered, 
owing to lack of time for revision. 

The writer desires to acknowledge his 
indebtedness to Jennings and Graham and 
to the editor of the Western Christian 
Advocate for the use of valuable cuts and 
engravings. 

In the appendix are the names of those 
business men who have in some way pro- 
moted the interest of the Church, and who 
are recommended to the reader as honor- 
able and enterprising. 

James Marcus Newton. 

Main Street Parsonage, Covington. 






BISHOP SPELLMEYER 





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EARLY HISTORY. 

Just how, in detail, the property of the 
Main Street Church, now known as “Lib- 
erty Hall,” became the possession of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, the writer has 
been unable to ascertain. The building was 
erected by the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South, but after days of struggle despair 
fell upon them. From records consulted it 
seems that during the summer months of 
1857 a successful attempt was made by the 
M. E. Church, in the persons of the Rev. 
W. H. Black and Attorney William Benton, 
to purchase the property, at what cost there 
is no mention. On July 1, of that year, 
$1,000 was drawn, with interest from date, 
and paid upon said property. How much 
more then collected or borrowed we are not 
informed, but it would seem considerably 
more. For, in 1861, there was a balance in- 
debtedness of more than $1,500. 

The first mention of Main Street Church 
in the minutes of the Kentucky Annual Con- 


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A HISTORY OF THE 


ference appeared in the year 1858, the ses- 
sion held at Covington, which is as follows : 
“Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of 
the Main Street M. E. Church, in Coving- 
ton, be, and hereby are, authorized to send 
an agent beyond the bounds of this confer- 
ence to raise funds for the purpose of, pay- 
ing the debt on said church, if they deem it 
necessary. Signed : C. D. Battelle, T. F. 
Harrison/’ 

The Rev. W. H. Black was appointed by 
the trustees as an agent. We do not know- 
how soon he took up the work, or what he 
accomplished previous to the conference 
year i860. On January 1, 1872, Rev. Black 
recorded a statement concerning a balance 
indebtedness, to pay which he was appointed 
a soliciting agent. 

The report submitted by him to the trus- 
tees was as follows : “I beg leave to report 
to the trustees of Main Street Church, Cov- 
ington, Ky., that on my return from a 
five months’ begging tour in the East for 
money to pay off debt on the house and lot, 
that I made a verbal report, both to the 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 11 

board, as then constituted, and to the Quar- 
terly Conference, which was satisfactory to 
all parties. It being agreed that I was to 
see the balance of the church debt paid, and 
that the brethren were to pay me $150 
at some time in the future that was back on 
my salary at the close of the conference 
year March 1, 1861. Said deficiency in sal- 
ary has not been paid, but the church debt 
has been. 

“And I now do what I should have done 
when payments were completed, only I was 
then in the field as chaplain with the army. 
I have always intended at a suitable time to 
write a history of this matter. On the 1st 
of August, 1S60, the remaining debt stood 
thus: Note in bank, $525; note on $1,000 
drawn July 1, 1857, with interest from date, 
and with credit of $200 paid June 17, 1859. 
Suit was brought on this note. 

“According to my subscription book, and 
a transcript from the commissioner’s rec- 
ord. attested by C. G. Wallace, Commission- 
er, collections and payments were made as 
follows : Collections in the East, $1,308.23 ; 


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A HISTORY OF THE 


traveling and other expenses, $160; net gain 
for church, $1,148.23. Out of this sum the 
note of $525 was paid before it was due, 
and the balance was applied to the note in 
the hands of the Commissioner. Finally, 
said note amounted to, including interest, 
$1,064,82; add to this the note of $525, the 
sum total of debt is $1,589.82. Substract the 
sum of collections, $1,148.23, leaves un- 
provided for $441.59. 

“In June, 1862, I sent from Palaski $400. 
Mr. Benton paid $100, making $500, all of 
which was required to pay the debt for 
the reason that not having received my sal- 
ary I had not been able to pay previously 
the balance of $58.41, of above mentioned 
sum collected. 

“Now to show how much I paid out of 
my own funds : Whole debt, $1,589.92. Sub- 
tract total collected, $1,148.23. The balance 
is $441.59. Of this sum William Benton 
paid $100. The sum paid by W. H. Black 
is $341.59. The twenty or more dollars 
paid by Father Purnell is to be accounted 
for by the fact that Phillip Hooper, who 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 1? 

was security, had shaved notes, and paid 
balances on this debt March 18, 1862, and 
his charge for the shaving and interest on 
sum paid by him up to the time of June fol- 
lowing that of my remittances of $400, 
through Captain Holding, reached Father 
Purnell’s hands, was the occasion of the sum 
paid by the latter. 

“It may not be out of place here for me 
to say that Mr. Benton, Esq., wrote me that 
if Phillip Hooper had gone to him for ad- 
vice he would have been saved of unneces- 
sary trouble of paying anything. It has al- 
ways been a matter of gratitude to God, on 
my part, that I was able to send home the 
money in time to prevent Mr. Hooper from 
procuring a deed to the property. Hoping 
this report may throw light upon a subject 
that has not been understood by everybody, 
I am, respectfully, w. h. black.” 

Very little, if any, history of the Main 
Street Church 'is left upon record previous 
to the year 1868. The conference minutes 
of these years are incomplete. The list of 
appointments, or any tabulated financial re- 


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A HISTORY OF THE 



BISHOP MORRIS. 


ports do not appear upon the Secretary’s 
book, and the minutes were never printed. 


1858. 

At the annual conference of 1858, hel.d in 
Covington, Bishop Morris, presiding, the 
Rev. S. S. Belville was appointed pastor of 
Main Street Church, with $100 missionary 


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appropriation, and served the church for 
two years with marked success. 


REV. S. S. BELVILLE. 


At the session of the annual conference 
held at Wesley Chapel, No Creek Circuit, 
in October, 1856, the Rev. S. S. Belville was 
admitted on trial, recommended from Find- 
lay Chapel, Cincinnati. In 1858, at Cov- 
ington, he was elected to Deacon’s orders. 


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and received “in full connection.” Hence, 
with full Deacon privileges, his first ap- 
pointment was Main Street. He ra£jdly 
grew into prominence in the conference, 
and was made a Steward of the conference 
in 1859. He was elected to Elder’s orders 
at Germantown in i860, and placed upon 
the Board of Examiners. In 1869, at Har- 
rodsburg, he was appointed one of a com- 
mittee to draft a constitution for a “Preach- 
er’s Aid Society.” He was a convincing 
preacher and a beloved pastor. In whatever 
charge he labored he succeeded. In 1875 
he supplied Main Street for some months, 
Rev. Hanford having been transferred to 
Ludlow. Thus Main Street was his last 
charge in Kentucky. In 1876 he was trans- 
ferred by Bishop Wiley to the New Jersey 
Conference. A few years ago Brother Bel- 
ville passed to his reward. 

1859- 

In 1859 the conference was held at Alex- 
andria, Bishop Morris presiding. “On mo- 
tion of Brother Black the conference, by a 


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rising vote, respectfully requested Bishop 
Morris to transfer Stephen M. Merrill to 
this conference.” The next year he ap- 
peared at the conference at Germantown, 



•‘STEPHEN M. MERRILL.” 


and in the tardiness of Bishop Simpson, was 
elected President of the conference. It is 
the pride of our Kentucky Conference that 
our now venerable Bishop Merrill was, in 
his earlier years, presiding Elder of the 


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A HISTORY OF THE 



Maysville District, and pastor of Union 
Church, Covington. 

The following conference year was a short 
one, as the Kentucky Conference in i860 be- 


REV. W. H. BLACK AND WIFE. 

came a spring conference. Rev. Belville 
was pastor of Main Street. There exists 
no church records of the year. 

i860. 

The annual conference of i860 convened 


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at Germantown, Bishop Simpson presiding. 
Rev. Black became pastor of Main Street. 
But scant records are preserved. At the 
close of the year Brother Black started East 
to collect money to pay church debt. He 


BISHOP AMES. 

succeeded, as will be seen elsewhere. Aft- 
erward he became Chaplain for the Union 
Army in the Civil War. 

1861. 

The session of the conference of 1861 was 


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A HISTORY OF THE 



held at Maysville, Bishop Ames presiding. 
It was at this conference that the Rev. S. 
F. Conrey, one of the early promoters of 
Kentucky Methodism, returned to the Cin- 


BISHOP SCOTT. 

cinnati Conference, and commendatory 
resolutions were offered. The Rev. George 
Goodwin was pastor at Main Street, of 
whom very little is shown upon the church 
records. 


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1862. 

The conference of 1862 was assembled at 
Asbury, Bishop Scott presiding. W. H. 
Black was reported Chaplain to the Twenty- 
third Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers, U. 


REV. NEWTON W. DARLINGTON. 

S. Army, and member of Newport Quarter- 
ly Conference. Rev. S. M. Merrill was Sec- 
retary of ihe conference. The Rev. New- 
ton W. Darlington was appointed pastor of 
Main Street. 



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The conference session which convened 
at Covington, 1858, admitted N. W. Darl- 
ington on trial, with recommendations from 
the West Covington and Ludlow charge. 
In i860, at Germantown, he was received 
into full connection and ordained Deacon. 
Here he, through his Presiding Elder, asked 
for a location. The next year at Maysville 
he was re-admitted and ordained Elder by 
Bishop Morris, in 1863, at Main Street 
Church. He was Presiding Elder of the 
Maysville District, then of the Covington 
District, leaving the latter district for his 
second pastorate at Main Street. Rev. Dar- 
lington was a hard worker, a man of con- 
siderable executive ability, and was greatly 
interested in temperance reform. He was 
transferred to the Cincinnati Conference in 
1877. He now rests from active labors at 
West Union, Ohio. 

1863. 

In 1863 the Conference met at Union 
Church, Covington, Bishop Morris presid- 
ing. At this conference S. M. Merrill (now 


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Bishop) was transferred from his pastorate 
at Union Church to the Ohio Conference. 
The Rev. George W. Johnson, a native of 
Kentucky, joining the conference in 1858, 


REV. REASON D. LASHBROOK. 

from Augusta Circuit, succeeded Rev. Mer- 
rill at Greenup Street, and after a pastorate 
of two years became a Chaplain in the U. 
S. Army. At this session the Rev. ,E. C. 
Savage, recommended from Main Street, 



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A HISTORY OF THE 


was elected to the office of Deacon. “At the 
close of the 3 o’clock sermon at Main Street 
Church, D. L. Barrows, Joseph Bristow 
and N. W. Darlington were ordained Eld- 
ers by Bishop Morris.” The Rev. R. D. 
Lashbrook was appointed pastor of Main 
Street. 


REASON D. LASHBROOK. 

In 1853 his name appears in the minutes 
of the annual conference as a member of the 
Tract Society by the payment of dues. For 
some years as a local preacher he supplied 
circuits in the Green River District. In 
1854, at Germantown, he was examined, ad- 
mitted to the conference, and at once elect- 
ed to Deacon's orders. Was ordained Elder 
two years later at the Wesley Chapel, No. 
Creek Circuit, by Bishop Ames. During his 
life he labored in some of the poorest charges 
of the conference, though a man of rare 
powers as a preacher. He was of those who 
“cry aloud and spare not.” In 1863 he be- 
came pastor of Main Street, and is of blessed 
memory. He superannuated in 1892 at 


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Louisa. He died in May, 1897, of dropsey 
of the heart while visiting his oldest daugh- 
ter in Harrison County, Kentucky. 

1864. 



BISHOP SIMPSON. 

The conference of 1864 was held at Au- 
gusta, Bishop Simpson presiding. At this 
conference Rev. W. H. Black was called for- 
ward. He gave the conference a general 
statement of his work in the army, “vindi- 
cating army Chaplains against the attacks of 
their enemies who have denounced them as 


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A HISTORY OF THE 


nuisances in the army. He narrated some 
thrilling battle scenes through which he had 
passed.” 

The 'pastorate of the Rev. N. M. Shurick 
at Main Street began with this year and con- 
tinued for two successive years. Rev. G. 
W. Johnson was pastor of Union, and Rev. 
Darlington of Newport. 

REV. N. M. SHURICK. 

In the minutes of the conference of 1864, 
on motion the Bishop was requested to 
transfer to the Kentucky Conference 
Erasmus Lathrop and N. M. Shurick. Rev. 
Shurick was at "once placed on the Board of 
Examiners. He was prominent in the con- 
ference. His first appointment among us 
was Main Street. In 1866, at Greenup 
Street, he became supernumary and was 
left without an appointment. 

1865. 

In March, 1865, the annual conference 
convened at Newport, Bishop Morris pre- 
siding. “At the German M. E. Church the 


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conference voted to have a sacramental 
service on Saturday, March 4th, at 11 a.m. 
to be folowed by an inauguration prayer- 
meeting in behalf of Abraham Lincoln, the 


President of the United States.” Rev. 
John H. Langely was transferred to the 
Kentucky Conference from the East Balti- 
more Conference, and stationed at Union 
Church. It was during his pastorate that 


BISHOP CLARK. 


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the present edifice was erected and called 
“Union Church.” Throughout this confer- 
ence year Rev. Shurick continued at Main 
Street. 

1866. 

The conference of 1866 convened at 
Greenup Street, Covington, Bishop Clark 
presiding. During the following year Union 
Church was erected. This was the greatest 
session of the conference up to date. “The 
following ministers of the M. E. Church 
South, upon the proper certificate being pre- 
sented, were re-admitted into the traveling 
connection : Duke Slavens, D. Stevenson, 
W. F. T. Spruill, F. T. Johns, L.D. Parker, 
D. W. Axline, W. C. Bandy, Thomas Ran- 
kin, J. W. Zimmerman, John S. Cox^, W. 
L. Furnis, Elias Botner, J. L. Cragg, L. B. 
Piersal, H. C. Northcott, H. J. Perry, R. G. 
Gardiner, J. C. C. Thompson, C. T. Hill.” 
Bishop Morris was present and spoke on the 
centenary of Methodism movement ; the 
call was for $5,000,000 Mr. J. D. Hearne 
and Amos Shinkle appear in the min- 


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utes of the Conference for the first 
time. Mr. Hearne was put on the 
Committee of the Centenary Move- 
ment, and was also a member of the 
first Board of Education of the Kentucky 
Conference, it being organized at this time. 
He was appointed Treasurer of the con- 
ference in 1869. Mr. Shinkle also became 
very prominent in the conference, being the 
founder of the Preachers’ Relief Society, 
and a most liberal contributor. Also at this 
conference the Church Extension Society of 
Kentucky was organized. Mr. Shinkle be- 
came Treasurer of the society. Colored 
ministers were admitted into the conference. 
Bishop Clark explained that he wanted col- 
ored ministers, under a white presiding 
Elder, to form a district. 

The Rev. James H. Bristow became pas- 
tor of Main Street, where he had a very, suc- 
cessful career of two years. He, more than 
any other man, built up the church. Dur- 
ing this time he received 11 7 probationers. 
While there are no detailed records of his 


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work, he is still remembered as “Father 
Bristow” by the older members. 

The first mention of the name of JL H. 
Bristow in the minutes of the Kentucky 



REV. JAMES H. BRISTOW. 

Conference was in the year 1865, at New- 
port. “Letter from James H. Bristow to 
Bishop Morris was read, stating that he was 
anxious to get back to the “old settlement.” 


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The Bishop presented his certificate of lo- 
cation, signed by Bishop Kavanaugh, of the 
M. E. Church South, and on motion Bro. 
Bristow was re-admitted.” The same year 
he became supernumerary and went East. 
At Greenup Street, in 1865, a letter com- 
mendatory of the character of J. H. Bristow 
from Dr. Foster (late Bishop) and similar 
resolutions from the preachers’ meeting of 
New York City, whereupon his character 
was passed and he was made effective. At 
this conference he was appointed pastor of 
Main Street, remaining there for two years. 
He then became Presiding Elder of the 
Western Kentucky District, where his la- 
bors soon broke his health. At the next con- 
ference, 1869, he was re-appointed to this 
district, and also pastor at Paducah, with 
the authority to collect money to build a 
church. At the conference session at Mays- 
ville, .1870, a telegram was received an- 
nouncing his death. 


1867. 

In 1867 the annual conference convened 


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at Lexington, Bishop Thomson presiding. 
At this session Amon Boreing (now Dr. 
Boreing) was received on trial from Lon- 
don Mission. Also at this time the Ken- 



BISHOP THOMSON. 

tucky Conference was divided into ten dis- 
tricts. It was the age of Presiding Elders. 
Rev. J. H. Bristow was the “good” pastor 
at Main Street. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


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1868. 

At the annual conference of 1868, held at 
Grace Church, Newport, Bishop Kingsley 
presiding, S. S. Belville, after an absence- 



BISHOP KINGSLEY. 


from his former pastorate of eight years, was* 
re-appointed pastor at Main Street. With 
his return to his old field increased enthus- 
iasm prevailed, and during the year the 


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church was progressive and many improve- 
ments were made. 

The very first thing accomplished in the 
church was the organization of a Financial 
Board, which governed the entire church. 
Few churches have been graced with a more 
business gift than Main Street in some of 
her early members. Affairs were sometimes 
carried on with excessive rigidity and exact- 
ness, which tends to chill the warm, soft 
heart of an emotionalist, and, in accordance 
with the stricticity of this honorable board, 
many a spasmodic breeze of lukewarmth 
has fanned the soul of hitherto unquestioned 
integrity. The officials for the year were : 
W. M. Sanford, Abner Pierce, Samuel 
Ward, E. M. Finfrock, A. T. Blennerhas- 
set, R. Steers, Samuel Soden and George 
Goodhue. 

THE LADIES’ MITE SOCIETY. 

The ladies had voted to change the name 
of their society, organized November 8, 
1866, to the “Ladies’ Mite Society,” and 
unanimously proclaimed improvement of 


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church property. They began by request- 
ing the trustees to permit them to sell the 
pulpit sofa, money for which was to go on 
repairs. This was granted, and they were 



WILLIAM M. SANFORD. 

authorized to make all necessary improve- 
ments providing they paid the bills, where- 
upon the society appointed a Committee on 
Repairs, also a Rallying Committee, and 


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A HISTORY OF THE 


pledged themselves never to discontinue ef- 
forts till all necessary improvements were 
made. At this stage of enthusiasm Bro. 
William Sanford loaned them the entire 
amount for repairs, to be paid back to him 
as collected. They solicited donations from 
far and near. Kegs of white lead, dozens 
of chairs, coal buckets, trustee books, win- 
dow shades, lumber, sand, book cases, labor, 
all are on the donation list. The improve- 
ments made were : Auditorium papered and 
carpeted, repaired and painted all the win- 
dows and doors, varnished pulpit, provided 

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same with new chairs, painted pews,- sup- 
plied windows with shades, painted ex- 
terior of the church, repaired exterior walls, 
did excavating, covered spring doors and 
whitewashed church fence. To defray this 
expense the Mite Society collected, during 
the year, $600 in cash and $250 in donations. 
Later they purchased a cabinet organ at a 
cash price of $130, to pay for which thirteen 
persons advanced $10 each, taking the trus- 
tees notes for nine months. 

Men and women belonged to the Mite So- 


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ciety in equal standing. One meeting re- 
ported fifty-five in attendance. Collections 
were taken at each meeting. During the 
year forty-one meetings were held. The 
collections in total were $137.43, an average 
of more than $3.35. This surpassed the 
Sunday collections, which were, as a total, 
$163.52, an average collection of more than 
$3.15. The Mite Society, aside from the 
regular collections, arranged “festivals/’ On 
June 5, a festival was announced, tickets 
$1, which included musical exercises, 
strawberries, ice-cream and cakes. The 
net profits were $143.65. Diming the year 
Bro. Belville received into the church 
forty-one on probation. 

1869. 

The conference of 1869 was held at Har- 
rodsburg, Bishop Scott presiding. “On mo- 
tion, J. C. Harrison, J. McK., Reiley, 
Granville Moody, S. S. Belville and D. L. 
Barrows were appointed a committee to 
draft a constitution for a “Preachers’ Aid 
Society.” At this session a conference for 


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A HISTORY OF THE 


the colored people was organized, known as 
the “Lexington Conference.” Also, J. D. 
Hearre was elected Vice President of the 
Church Extension Society. Rev. Belville 
returned to Main Street and prosperity con- 
tinued. 

Regular Sunday collections for the year 
amounted to $175.82, a weekly average of 
more than $3.38, an increase in the aggre- 
gate of $12.30 over the previous year. On 
Monday, May 17, Mr. Drew exhibited his 
panorama of Egypt and the Holy Land, 
leaving the church a profit of $35.35. “There 
were 366 tickets taken at the door, and the 
house was literally packed.” 

By one of those fatalities to continuous 
history, absence of record, we are left to 
guess at what might have occurred to in- 
terrupt an excessively prosperous organiza- 
tion, the Ladies’ Mite Society. Its last 
meeting was held February 26, 1869, and by 
a few strokes of the pen that once energetic 
body disappears from history. “On motion 
society was disbanded.” What gigantic foe 
do you suppose tore that amiable body as- 


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sunder? Could it have been a ruffle, a cake 
or a hasty remark ? 

But there arose in its stead the “Social 
Union/’ which was not merely financial in its 
object, but also to foster the social life of 
the church. It met weekly and social and 
literary excellence were attained. At one of 
the meetings, at the residence of Bro. Hum- 
ble, December 2, “all business was laid aside 
and all entered at once into the pleasures of 
the evening, which consisted, in part, of 
music and song. These, with other interest- 
ing exercises, added to the festivity of the 
occasion, and rendered it one long to be 
remembered, after which the gladsome 
throng dispersed.” The poetic genius of the 
author of the above is obvious, and no 
doubt mingled with his eloquence to great ef- 
fect when selected as the speaker of the eve- 
ning, as evidenced by the following: “Bro. 
A. R. Blaker delivered a speech (February 
2) subject, “Our Social Union and Its Do- 
ings.” He handled his subject in a mas- 
terly manner, and very much to the enter- 
tainment of the attendants. They listened 


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with almost breathless silence and leaned 
forward to catch the words of eloquence and 
wisdom as they fell from his lips.” 

On January 13, an oyster supper was 
given, proceeds for the pastor, which netted 
-$269. During the year fifty-two were taken 
into the church on probation. 

1870. 

In 1870 conference was held at Maysville, 
Bishop Thomson, presiding. The Rev. 
Henry Baker, of the New Jersey Confer- 
ence, was transferred to the Kentucky, and 
was stationed at Union Church, Covington. 
Also “Shinkle Chapel,” for the first time, 
appeared in the minutes, with Rev. W. F. 
T. Spruill, pastor. Bro. Belville returned 
for the third year to Main Street, and was 
gladly received. During the year fifty-four 
probationers were received. The officials for 
the year were: W. M. Sanford, J. E. Mar- 
shall, Charles Taylor, V. B. Wood, S. Soden, 
J. W. Crowell, J. Tomlinson and A. R. 
Blaker. 

It appears that Bro. Sanford had ad- 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


41 


variced considerable money as a loan to pay 
for the organ, the trustees failing to pay 
notes within nine months. On giving the 
Secretary’s annual report, Bro. Marshal re- 
minds them of their indebtedness for such 
liberality in a sort of biting tone. It had 
its effect. Soon after a committee was ap- 
pointed to secure George Kenran to lec- 
ture on Northern Asia, March 25, tickets 
35 cents. The lecture was given, but much 
to the mortification of the committee a profit 
of only $1.20 was realized. During the 
month of June Bro. Taylor, as a committee, 
had placed steps at the front door, and, hav- 
ing a due regard for public safety, put up 
railings. However, the railings were ob- 
jected to by the more modern, and were 
ordered taken down. 

The Sunday collections were in the aggre- 
gate $172.90, an average weekly collection 
of $3.36, a decrease from the year previous. 
Total monies recorded for the year $197.96, 
leaving a deficit of $65.13 to be added to 
the standing indebtedness of the trustees. 
By what method they raised pastor’s salary 


42 


A HISTORY OF THE 


or benevolences, nothing is said in the of- 
ficial minutes. The Social Union seemed 
to be the only factor that catered to the 
preacher’s relief. 

The Rev. S. S. Belville was a promoter 
of the social life of the church, while the 
congregation, we have every reason to be- 
lieve, were, as they are now, a social, 
loving people. Yet the Social Union did not 
start out with a very decided enthusiasm at 
the beginning of the third year. And, at a 
feebly attended meeting of May 26,. Bro. 
Sanford made a motion that the “Union” 
adjourn until October. Duly, on October 20, 
the society was re-organized and strenuous 
efforts were made to raise money for the 
pastor. An oyster supper was held on 
Thursday, February 2, tickets $1, or six for 
$5. A net profit of $164.53 was ordered paid 
to the pastor. Is it not evident that a church 
that depends upon mercenary enterprises to 
keep up the church obligations is a kind of 
spasdomic, uncertain institution? The 
writer is not one of those who think it a sin- 
ful practice to indulge in suppers and social 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


41 


functions in the church, providing there are 
rooms furnished for that purpose. But if 
these things are created merely for financial 
support they paralize the healthful develop- 
ment cf the church. 

The Sunday School flourished. If Bro. 
Belville had any specialty it was that of 
Sunday School work. 

1871. 

The conference of 1871 convened at Lou- 
isville, Bishop Clark presiding. John H. 
Meredith was admitted on trial, recommend- 
ed from Main Street. In 1873 he was trans- 
ferred to the North Indiana Conference. 
Rev. W. H. Black was appointed pastor of 
Main Street, and had a profitable pastorate 
of two years. 

Hence the Rev. Belville was succeeded by 
a man in every way qualified for the work 
committed to him. The study of personali- 
ties of sterling worth always affords inter- 
est. Fertile souls possess their powers va- 
riously. As a student of their work, and 
not as an acquaintance, the writer is im- 


44 


A HISTORY OP THE 


pressed with the strength of the two men, 
both of limitless integrity. Bro. Belville, 
the conservative, the constantly admired for 
his easy and winsome diplomacy. Bro. 



REV. W. H. BLACK. 


Black, the radical, the reformer, the modern- 
izer, v/ith a personality as positive as it is 
capable. He is Pauline. Bro. Belville is 
Johannine. To the former Main Street 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


45 


Church owes her existence. For her free- 
dom from debt he traveled north and south, 
east and west. 

The report of the previous year shows the 
trustees greatly in debt. The first thing un- 
der the new administration was to clear in- 
debtedness. A total of $217.96 was raised 
by subscriptions. Other subscriptions fol- 
lowed. 

The upstairs, stairway and hails were 
painted, Sunday School room and hall were 
papered, various carpets and mattings were 
supplied, and the premises renewed in gen- 
eral. Aside from these finances the average 
Sunday collection was $3.06. The church 
gave $35 to missions. 

Under the new pastorate the Social Union 
makes no break in enthusiasm. Topics and 
strides of eloquence are recorded that would 
do credit to a platform worthy of no mean 
reputation. Too, the year was not without 
its pathos. On April 26, at a literary meet- 
ing, Irene Sanford, a beautiful character 
of twelve years, recited “Religion,” Just 
thirty-four days later she died. At that 


46 


A HISTORY OF THE 


meeting her father, W. M. Sanford, pre- 
sided. How dreadfully near the death angel 
lingered on that memorable night as the 
pleasant moments passed. Did the man pre- 
siding have any presentiment that the frosty- 
hand was near! Just thirty-four days for 
Irene to dwell in father’s house ! Then to 
her Heavenly Father and Home. Death 
angel, why was thy hand not stayed? 
Eternity must answer. 

But little more is known of the Social 
Union until 1875. Its last record of this 
pastorate is “Main Street M. E. Church, 
Covington, November 30.” Here the hand 
stopped and the past resumed her silence. 
What stopped that hand? Could it have.been 
a rumor, a selfish heart, a flower or a 
frock ! 

Many advances were made in the Sun- 
day School. A Bible class was organized 
with s)stematic study of the lesson; Sun- 
day School institutes were established, a se- 
ries of five lectures given by five eminent 
men, reunions and all kinds of profitable 
gatherings for instruction were propagated. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


17 


The Sunday School, with Grace Church, 
Newport, arranged a union picnic. The av- 
erage attendance for the year was 138. 

During the conference year the church 
was visited by death in three of her homes. 
Bro. James E .Marshall died some time in 
April, Irene A. Sanford on May 30. and Ed- 
ward Pratt Soden October 24. Resolutions 
were spread upon the official records of the 
Sunday School as follows : 

JAMES E. MARSHALL. 

“Whereas, God in His providence has 
called away our lamented and esteemed 
brother, James E. Marshall, who has so 
faithfully served our Sabbath School as of- 
ficer and teacher for several years, and who, 
in addition to his natural ability, has blessed 
the school with an unblemished character 
and rich Christian experience ; therefore 

“Resolved, That by his death our school 
has lost a noble worker, and his class a faith- 
ful teacher. 

“Resolved, That we deeply sympathize 
with the bereaved family, and commend 


48 


A HISTORY OF THE 



EARLY MEMBERS 




MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


4& 


Group on page 48 are, from top, read- 
ing from right to left : First row, Mrs. 
W. F. T. Spruill, Mrs. S. S. Belville, Mrs. 
B. A. Stubbins. Second row : Mollie 
Buckton, Mrs. Van Wood, Mrs. Mc- 
Clung. Third Row : Meribah Eaton, Ella 
Pratt, Miss Rouse. Fourth row: E. P. 
Soden, Mrs. W. D. Walsh, J. E. Marshall. 


50 


A HISTORY OF THE 


them to God as the unfailing- source of 
Christian comfort. 

“Resolved, That a copy of these testi- 
monials of his faithful services and Christian 
character be given to his parents. 

“Signed : W. M. Sanford, John Birch, 
Watson Tranter/’ 

IRENE A. SANFORD. 

“Whereas, God, in whose hands are the 
issues of life and death, took, on the 13th of 
May, 1871, in the early morning of her life, 
from the family, from the Sabbath School 
and from the church, Irene A. Sanford, 
daughter of William M. and Susan A. San- 
ford ; therefore 

“Resolved, First, that it is a matter of 
devout thankfulness to our Heavenly 
Father, that Irene, our Sabbath School as- 
sociate and sister, was so well qualified, 
through “Jesus’ Blood,” to enter Heaven, 
for, thought not quite 12 years of age, she 
was one of our brightest and best Christian 
girls. 

“Resolved, Secondly, that we shall con- 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


51 


tinue to commend our beloved Brother and 
Sister Sanford and family to the Father of 
mercies and the God of all comfort, who 
comforteth us in all our tribulations, that 
we may be able to comfort them who are in 
trouble, by the comfort wherewith we our- 
selves have been comforted of God. 

“Resolved, Thirdly, that a copy of these 
resolutions be presented to Bro. Sanford, 
and that they shall be spread upon the jour- 
nal of this Main Street Sabbath School. 

“Signed : W. H. Black, Bill Carroll, W. 
W. Tranter.” 

EDWARD PRATT SODEN. 

“Whereas, Our Heavenly Father, on the 
24th day of October, 1871, removed Brother 
Edward Pratt Soden, only a month over 19 
years of age, from the family and from the 
Main Street M. E. Sabbath School and the 
church militant; and, whereas, through the 
merits of Jesus’ Blood applied by the ef- 
ficient agency of the Holy Spirit, and in the 
exercise of faith in the Savior, our be- 


52 


A HISTORY OF THE 


loved brother was well and truly prepared 
for a home in Heaven ; therefore be it 

“Resolved, That it is a matter of devout 
thankfulness to God that, in his happy death, 
we have additional evidence of the truthful- 
ness of Mr. Wesley’s statement, ‘Our people 
die well be it 

“Resolved, Secondly, that while we, the 
members of the Main Street Sabbath School 
and Church, drop a tear of sympathy with 
parents and family, we also rejoice with 
them that 'Our Eddie’ lives today in that 
'Better land,’ and we pledge ourselves to 
meet him there ; be it 

“Resolved, Thirdly, that these resolutions 
be spread on the journal of the Main Street 
teachers’ meeting, and that a copy of them 
be furnished Brother and Sister Soden. 

“Signed : W. H. Black.” 

1872. 

In 1872 the Kentucky Annual Conference 
met at Union Church, Covington, Bishop 
Scott presiding. The Rev. Dr. McK Rieley 
was transferred from Kentucky to the Penn- 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


53 


sylvania Conference. Rev. Black was re- 
turned to Main Street. He renewed his vig- 
orous efforts for the church,. Nothing pre- 
vented his ministry that was within his abil- 
ity to reduce. He may have sometimes ap- 
peared obstinate, but what he stood for was 
always the right thing. He could not cater 
to the infelicities of men. He believed a 
man ought to stand on two feet, with the 
earth under him. 

Some repairs were made during the year. 
Roof and fence were repaired, gas meter 
was put in and other improvements made. 
A public collection of $173.33 was taken. 
The envelope system for the first time was 
introduced, Berean Quarterlies were reluct- 
antly adopted, and many other profitable 
changes made. The average Sunday 
Church collection was $2.75, a decrease from 
the previous year of 31 cents. 

In the Sunday School concert and exhibi- 
tion were given, netting a profit of $26.50. 
Also an officers’ and teachers’ picnic on July 
4th at Latonia Springs. Also Sunday School 
re-union January 12, at 3 p.m. The average 


54 


A HISTORY OF THE 


weekly attendance of the Sabbath School 
was 124. The average weekly collection 
was $1.74. 

1873- 

The conference was held at Lexington in 



BISHOP WILEY. 

the year 1873, Bishop Wiley presiding. Rev. 
W. H. Black became supernumary, and in 
1874 was transfererd to the Cincinnati Con- 
ference. The Rev. W. F. Spruill was ap- 
pointed pastor of Main Street. 



MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 55 

Rev. Spruill had many discouragements 
to overcome in his new field. For some 
reason the church lacked in prosperity. The 
attention of the board was still given to re- 


REV. W. F. T. SPRUII.L. 

pairs, for which a subscription was ordered 
taken, and $73 was the result. A gum com- 
position roof was put on at a cost of $120. 
Alteration of the infant class room was 


56 


A HISTORY OF THE 


made, the cost being $125. Repairing the 
doors, $25. Bro. Spruill was appointed to 
collect means for repairs. The average Sun- 
day collection was $3.17, an increase over 
the previous year of 42 cents. This indicates 
larger congregations. During the year fifty- 
six were taken in on probation. 

The Sunday School was prosperous. Sis- 
ter Jennie Hollingworth took a promi- 
nent part in Sunday School work, always 
having very large classes. On June 13 a 
picnic was given at Parker’s Grove, with 
$21.38 profit. Also Christmas entertain- 
ment, with $2.31 profit. On Thursday and 
Friday evenings, February 12 and 13, oc- 
curred an oyster supper. Thursday for 
adults, tickets 75 cents ; Friday for children, 
tickets 35 cents. The proceeds were $140.55, 
which were ordered paid to the pastor. In 
the Sunday School the average collection 
was $1.88, increase over previous year of 
12 cents. Average attendance 137, a gain of 
thirteen over previous year. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


1874. 

In 1874 the annual conference was held 
in Union Church, Covington, Bishop S. M. 
Merrill presiding. This year Brother R. 



BISHOP MERRILL. 

T. Miller’s name appears upon the minutes 
for the first time. 

Brother Spruill was returned to Main 
Street, and remained until October, when 
he was transferred to Urbana, Illinois, and 


58 


A HISTORY OF THE 


Brother Belville, for the third time pastor of 
Main Street, was transfered from Asbuiy 
charge to fill the vacancy. Brother Spruill 
did an excellent work at Main Street. He 
was one of the “loyal eighteen” of 1866. 
Many remember him as a very saintly man. 
The officials of the church were :Eli Davis, 
A. T. Blennerhasset, W. M. Sanford, C. 
W. House, S. Ward, E. M. Finfrock, Hor- 
ace Minkler, Van B. Wood, W. F. Coleman 
and W. W. Pierce. Repairs were still need- 
ed. The auditorium was papered, window 
shades supplied and the ceiling whitened. 
The average Sundav collection was $2.29, a 
decrease of 88 cents from the previous 
year. 

Soon after Brother Belville left Main 
Street, in 1871, the Social Union was dis- 
banded. At once upon his return there 
springs into existence the “Busy Bee” So- 
ciety. During the year much money was 
raised for improvements and pastor through 
this body of workers. C. W. House was 
President. 

The Sunday School was in good condition 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH 59 

throughout the year. This was the year of 
the temperance crusade. The Sunday School 
recorded their attitude : “Resolved, that we 
deem it of special importance at the pres- 
ent time to leave on record with the minutes 
of the board that we are in hearty sympathy 
with what is called the “Woman’s crusade 
against intemperance.” I take from the an- 
nual of 1875 the following: “Never since 
the close of the late war has our country 
been so agitated, never have people been 
more in earnest. In a small town in Ohio 
some Christian women commenced the work 
by visiting saloons, and, where they could 
gain admittance, praying and singing ; where 
they could not, the sidewalk was used. 

“The fire spread from town to town, and 
State to State, leagues were formed, and 
the same plan of operations carried on, and 
many saloonists abandoned the business and 
closed up their houses. The Christian wom- 
en were objects of terror to keepers of bar- 
rooms. In many places they took their 
knitting or sewing and sat near the bar- 


60 


A HISTORY OF THE 


room doors, taking the names of those who 
entered. 

“Hundreds of women were arrested in 
different places for their work of love. In 
Cincinnati the Mayor caused forty- three 
women to be arrested by the police and taken 
to the station house for disturbing the peace 
by praying and singing before a saloon. In 
our own city the work began by Sunday 
afternoon meetings held in different church- 
es and Odd Fellows’ Hall, under the aus- 
pices of the Sunday School Association of 
Covington and Kenton County. These 
meetings were largely attended, the total 
abstinence pledge circulated, and hundreds 
of signers obtained. Subsequently a Wom- 
an’s League was formed who have faith- 
fully kept up meetings on the Sabbath, dur- 
ing the summer, on the grounds of Mr. A. 
L. Greer; since in Odd Fellows’ Hall. A 
local Option League was formed for the 
purpose of stopping by law the retail sale 
of intoxicating drinks in our city. An elec- 
tion was held in November and resulted in 
the First District, 941 for whisky, 922 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 61 

against, and in the Second District 1,045 for 
and 642 against, so whisky must rule two 
years longer.” 

The average weekly Sunday School col- 



SAMUEL SODEN. 


lection for the year was $2.08, increase over 
previous year of 22 cent?. Average attend- 
ance 139. 

Many deaths occurred in the church dur- 


62 


A HISTORY OF THE 


ing the year : “Sister Emma Bruce died 
of consumption February 16. William 
Wiley died April 12. Sister Mary A. Ward 
died June 4, age 66 years. She had a para- 



MRS. SAMUEL SODEN. 


lytic stroke some five or six years before, 
causing the loss of speech and making ner 
helpless up to the time of her death. Brother 
Samuel Soden died June 14, aged 59 years. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


63 


He had been confined to the house for many 
months. Sister Elizabeth Purnell, perhaps 
the oldest Methodist in the State, died June 
30, age 89 years. All of these left the world 
happy in the Lord.” 

1875. 

The conference of 1875 convened at 
Trinity, Louisville, Bishop Foster pre- 
siding. At this session the Rev. D. 
Stevenson, D.D., took supernumerary re- 
lation, and was stationed at Lawrence, Mass. 
At the next session of the conference he was 
transferred to the New Hampshire Confer- 
ence. Rev. D. H. Muller, of the Western 
New York Conference, was stationed at 
Union Church. The Rev. S. S. Belville re- 
turned to Main Street. 

On his return Brother Belville found 
many perplexing problems. The Sunday 
School was the most prosperous work of 
the church. The aid societies of the chruch 
had never been other than temporary. Rais- 
ing money for repairs or deficit in pastor’s 
salary was always a feat that would in- 


64 


A HISTORY OF THE 


spire a few months work, only to relax into 
a state of stupification. The church proper 
had never been rightly developed. It was 
conducted temporarily rather than for a ris- 
ing church. Subordinate things were made 
the supreme, and the latter sacrificed for the 
former. As the writer studies the history of 
the church from existing records the Rev. 
W. H. Black, in many ways not popular, 
launched the church life upon a plane which, 
had it been fostered for a few years, would 
have opened to Main Street the largest suc- 
cess. He introduced into the Sunday School 
the Berean Serial lessons, the teachers' 
meeting, the public review. Into the church 
the envelope system, the helpful lecture 
courses and a strict churchly life. 

Brother Belville was a fervent preacher. 
He drew crowds and influenced them. The 
first year of his second pastorate, 1868, he 
received into the church on probation forty- 
one, of whom seventeen were dropped, 
twenty-one being received into full connec- 
tion. In 1869 he received fifty-two proba- 
tioners, fourteen were dropped and thirty- 


MAIN ST. M; E. CHURCH. 


65 - 

seven received into full membership. In 
1870 he received on probation fifty-one, of 
these twenty-five were dropped, twenty-two- 
became members in full. During the year 
and five months pastorate, in 1874 and 1875,. 
thirteen were received on probation, of 
which two became full members, ten being 
dropped. 

Officials for the year were: W. M. San- 
ford, Eli Davis, Joseph Rich, A. T. Blenner- 
hassett, C. W. House, V. B. Wood. The 
Sunday School reported an average weekly 
collection for the year of $2.25. For 
missions $20.99. Average attendance 107. 
At the close of the year the Rev. Belville- 
was transferred to the New Jersey Confer- 
ence. 

1876. 

The annual conference of 1876 was held 
at Grace Church, Newport, Bishop I. W. 
Wiley presiding. Duke Slavens was Sec- 
retary. The Rev. N. W. Darlington, whose 
term of Eldership in the Covington District 
had expired, was appointed pastor of Main 
Street. 


66 


A HISTORY OF THE 


At Main Street the year was an unsuc- 
cessful one. The pastor was in poor health, 
unable to do the work required. Some of 
the leading members lost interest, and the 
official meetings were not well attended. It 
seems that Rev. Darlington left the church 
in September, and was transferred to the 
Cincinnati Conference. No item in any rec- 
ord refers to him after that time. The 
name of Rev. Thomas Hanford appears 
about the first of November, and afterward 
regularly mentioned. Brother Hanford 
worked very arduously the remainder of the 
year. 

The Sunday School had much contention 
during the year. Many of the most faithful 
members withdrew. The annual picnic was 
held at Parlor Grove July 17, with Grace 
Church, Newport, and Findley Chapel, Cin- 
cinnati, and was only a partial success. A 
Christmas festival was held, with an inter- 
esting program, with “lanterns, candies, nuts 
and fruits.” The average attendance in 
the Sunday School was sixty-five. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


67 


1877. 

In 1877 the annual conference was held at 
Lexington, Bishop Bowman presiding. The 
Rev. J. W. Zimmerman, who entered the 



BISHOP BOWMAN. 

conference in 1866, was appointed pastor of 
Main Street, and for one year labored faith- 
fully in the charge. There are no reports 
for the year’s work, except for the Sunday 


A HISTORY OF THE 


School, which advanced during the year 
very encouragingly. A tableaux with wax 
works, given during the year, netted a profit 
of $30. Also concert and exhibition, pro- 



REV. J. W. ZIMMERMAN. 

ceeds $36.20. The school paid pastor $30 
during the year. Also $10 to trustees. The 
average weekly collection for the year was 
$1.17. Average attendance ninety-one. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


69 


Much interest was taken in the instruction 
of children. 

1878. 

In March, of 1878, the conference was 



BISHOP PECK. 

held at Union Church, Covington, Bishop 
Peck presiding. Rev. W. W. Ramsey was 
transferred to the Pittsburg Conference. 
The Rev. B. A. Stubbins was appointed pas- 
tor of Main Street. 


70 


A HISTORY OF THE 


In 1869 the West Virginia District was 
added to the Kentucky Conference, and the 
Revs. H. D. Rice, L. M. Leslie and B. A. 
Stubbins came to the Kentucky Conference 


REV. BENJAMIN A. STUBBINS. 

from West Virginia. At the same session 
Rev. Stubbins was elected Deacon and ad- 
mitted into full connection. Was elected to 
Elder’s orders at Louisville, in 1871, and 



MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


71 


was also chosen Assistant Secretary. He 
grew popular in the conference. In 1872, 
at Union Church, he was elected Secretary 
of the conference. In 1874 he became pre- 
siding elder of the Green River District, 
where he remained until appointed pastor of 
Main Street. 

In 1876 he was elected to fill the vacancy 
made by D. Stevenson in the Board of Edu- 
cation, the former having been transferred 
to New Hampshire. In 1880, at Danville, 
he was elected as delegate to the General 
Conference. He had a pastorate of two 
very successful years at Main Street. From 
here he went to Dayton, where he remained 
until 1882, when, at the conference at Louis- 
ville, he was transferred to Zanesville, Ohio. 
He was a very enterprising pastor, well 
equipped for his work, and was especially 
evangelistic. In earlier life he was a doc- 
tor of medicine. He is now pastor at Shaw- 
nee, Ohio. 

The officials were : J. L. Frisbie, Eli Da- 
vis, A. T. Blennerhassett, C. W. House, C. 
A. Richardson, W. M. Sanford, T. M. 


*72 


A HISTORY OF THE 


Dixon. The finances of the church were 
vrnuch better than any previous year on rec- 
ord. The pastor’s salary was paid as fol- 
lows : The average Sunday collection for 
the year was $6.80. The Ladies’ Aid So- 
ciety paid $62. Mr. Amos Shinkle, $300. 
Total paid pastor for year, $954. The Pre- 
siding Elder’s claim of $40 was paid. 

The church life was carefully overseen by 
Brother Stubbins. He was present at every 
meeting. During the year he had quite a 
revival, and about thirty probationers were 
received. The year closed with a total 
membership of 115 and twenty-seven proba- 
tioners. The benevolent collections were 
$50.50. The Sunday School grew in inter- 
est and enrollment. The average weekly 
collection was $2.07. Average attendance 
I2l. 

1879. 

The conference of 1879 convened at Som- 
erset, Bishop Scott presiding. The Rev. 
.Stubbins returned to Main Street. The 
-church was very aggressive on all lines. The 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


73 


Lyceum, the Ladies’ Aid, the Sunday 
School,, the official board, and the amiable 
pastor worked for prosperity. At Shinkle 
was C. J. Howes, Dayton and Bellevue, 
Rev. E. L. Sanders, and Rev. H. D. Rice 
Presiding Elder. 

On pastor’s salary Amos Shinkle paid 
$300, the regular Sunday collections were 
$355 -5°.’ an average weekly collection of 
$6.45, a decrease from the previous year of 
35 cents. The Ladies’ Aid paid $137. Other 
sources $23.80. Total paid pastor for the 
year $796, a decrease from last year of $158. 
There were at the close of the year seventy- 
seven members ar.d six probationrs. Paid 
to benevolences $31.25. 

In the Sunday School the average attend- 
ance was 1 18. Average weekly collection 
$1.36. Missionary collection for the year 
$17.50. B. F. Graziani took an important 
part in the Sunday School. 

1880. 

In 1880 the Kentucky, which had hitherto 
been a spring conference, became a fall con- 



74 A HISTORY OF THE 

ference. Hence there were two conference 
sessions that year. The spring session con- 


D. STEVENSON, D. D 



MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 75 

vened at Danville, Bishop Simpson presid- 
ing. D. Stevenson was transferred back 
into the conference, having returned from 
the East. The Rev. Thomas Hanford be- 
came pastor of Main Street. The period 
till the fall session, which was in September, 
was only of six months duration. During 
these months Brother Hanford worked 
faithfully, but there seemed many obstacles 
to overcome. His salary was set at $500 
for the half year, of which $338.74 was paid. 
During his pastorate the church was filled 
with delighted hearers, and the poet preach- 
er became very popular from the beginning. 
At the end of this term the membership 
numbered eighty. The average attendance 
of the Sabbath School was ninety. 

The Rev. Thomas Hanford was admitted 
on trial in the Kentucky Conference in 1877, 
at Lexington, Bishop Bowman presiding, 
recommended by the Covington and Mays- 
ville District Conference. His first appoint- 
ment was Maysville, but for some reason 
he spent the latter part of the same year at 
Main Street, vacancy being made by the 


/ 


76 A HISTORY OF THE 

transfer of Rev. Darlington from Main 
Street to the Cincinnati Conference. He 
was received into the full connection of the 
conference in 1879, a t Somerset. He grad- 



REV. THOMAS- HANFORD, D. D. 


uated in the conference studies at Hardins- 
burg in 1880, was already an Elder. Brother 
Hanford is the poet preacher of the confer- 
ence, in which he holds a very prominent 


MAIN ST. M. E. GHITRCH. 


77 


place. He has had successful pastorates 
in some of our best churches, in Main 
Street he is held in high esteem, having 
been three times pastor of the church. He 
is now stationed at Augusta. 



BISHOP E. o. HAVEN. 


1880. 

I11 the fall of 1880 the conference session 
was at Hardinsburg, Bishop Haven, pre- 
siding. Rev. Hanford returned to Main 
Street, and remained there until about the 


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A HISTORY OF THE 


first of December, when he was transferred 
to the Ludlow and West Covington charge, 
the Rev. J. W. Zimmerman succeeding him 
merely to supply the pulpit on the Sabbath 
until conference, the salary agreed upon was 
$4 per week. The members took turn in 
conducting the mid-week services. 

The Sabbath School had many discour- 
agements, many officers and teachers re- 
signed. The school paid $15 to missions. 
The average attendance was eighty. Dur- 
ing the year Sister Dora R. Wood, a beloved 
Sunday School teacher and valued member 
of the society, was reported as Having died. 

1881. 

The conference of 1881 met at Maysville, 
in September, Bishop Merrill, presiding. 
‘‘On motion of J. G. Bruce a special com- 
mittee was appointed to prepare a suitable 
expression of the sense of the conference 
concerning the death of the late President 
James A. Garfield and the late Bishop O. 
E. Haven.” A. J. Jutkin, J. Y. Dobbins and 
J. G. Bruce were appointed. At the next 


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79 


conference session the reply from Mrs. Gar- 
field was read : 

“Mr. Stevenson, Dear Sir — Your letter 
with the copy ‘In Memoriam,’ from the Ken- 
tucky Conference of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, received, and I desire that you 
convey to this body my sincere thanks for 
the good will expressed and for this tribute 
of respect to the memory of General Gar- 
field, and sympathy with him in his aims 
and purposes to help the Republic to a high- 
er life. “Very truly yours, 

“ Lucretia A. Garfield.” 

At this session the Rev. G. W. Bradford, 
from Augusta, was admitted on trial into 
the conference. 

Rev. C. J. Howes was appointed pastor of 
Main Street. Although many hindrances 
presented themselves, Brother Howes care- 
fully steered the church prosperously 
throughout the year. During the year sixty- 
three additions were reported, making a to- 
tal membership of 147. The pastor’s salary 
for the year was paid as follows : Congre- 


80 


A HISTORY OF THE 


gation paid $475, Amos Shinkle $500, Mis- 
sionary Society $75. Grand total $1,050. 
Benevolences and missions $37.48, confer- 
ence claimants $12, church extension $5, 
Freedmen’s Aid $3, and Education $4.75. 
Total benevolences $65.23. This is the best 
benevolent collection recorded for Main 
Street up to that date. 

On July 24 Thomas Walter was recom- 
mended for license to preach. Rev. Walter 
is now a member of the Cincinnati Confer- 
ence and stationed at Newtown. Also, Sep- 
tember 13, Brother John Deny was recom- 
mended for license to preach. During the 
year extensive improvements on church 
property was made at the cost of $234.25. 
Throughout the year the Ladies’ Aid So- 
ciety was very active. 

1882. 

The conference of 1882 w.as held at Lou- 
isville, Bishop Andrews, presiding. Rev. 
Howes returned to Main Street. The work 
continued prosperously. The membership 
increased seventeen during the year, mak- 


MAIN ST. M. K. CHURCH. 


SI 



in g a total membership of 164. The pas- 
tor’s salary, including' Mr. Shinkle’s dona- 
tion, the missionary appropriation and mon- 
ies from all sources, amounted to $1,100. 


PISHOP ANDREWS. 

t 

The congregation paid about' the same 
amount as last year. The benevolence, other 
than $37 for missions, are not recorded. The 
average attendance of the Sunday School 
was 125. 


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A HISTORY OF THE 


The Rev. C. J. Howes, with W. H. 
Childers, both of the Ashland District, was 
admitted into the Kentucky Conference on 
trial, in 1874, at Union Church, Covington. 



rev. c. J. HOWES. 

Was elected to Deacon orders at Newport 
in 1876, and ordained by Bishop Wiley. 
Was ordained Elder by Bishop Peck in 
1878, at Union Church. Very early he be- 


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83 


came popular among the leaders of the con- 
ference. He became a great preacher ; logi- 
cal, eloquent, learned. In 1883, at Barbour- 
ville, he was elected, with E. L. Shepherd, 
delegate to the General Conference. He 
was also delegate in 1900. At the close of 
his pastorate in Main Street he became Pre- 
siding Elder of the Covington District, suc- 
ceeding the Rev. J. D. Walsh, who became 
Pastor of Main Street. In 1889 Rev. Howes 
located at his own request and took a prom- 
inent' Government position. In 1893 he re- 
turned to the Kentucky Conference, and 
became Presiding Elder of the Louisville 
District, where he served a very successful 
term of six years. He was a model Pre- 
siding Elder. At the close of this term of 
Eldership he was transferred to Newton, 
Kansas. The degree of Doctor of Divinity 
was conferred upon him by Union College 
in 1900. He is worthy of the distinction. 
He is now a presiding elder in the South- 
western Kansas Conference. 

1883. 

The annual conference of 1883 convened 


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A HISTORY OF THE 


at Barbourville, Bishop Foster presiding. 
Bidwell Lane was reappointed to Union 
Church. The Rev. J. D. Walsh, late Pre- 
siding Elder of the Covington and Mays- 



BISHOP FOSTER. 

ville District, was appointed pastor of Main 
Street, to begin a successful work of three 
successive years. He increased the mem- 
bership and started the “church building en- 
terprise/’ by securing the subscription of 


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85 


$1,000, of which more than six hundred 
dollars were collected when he turned his 
accounts over to his successor. 

The financial year was very good. The 
church paid on pastor’s salary in regular 
weekly collections $397, an average collec- 
tion of $7.65. In special collections, $75.70. 
The Ladies’ Aid, $30. Grand total by the 
church, $502.70. This, including Amos 
Shinkle’s contribution and other outside 
sources, totaled the pastor’s salary at $1,100. 
Paid to missions during the year, $27. Other 
benevolent collections were taken. The 
year closed with a membership of 159. The 
Sunday School had an average attendance 
of 156. The Ladies’ Aid was very active, 
but no records are extant. 

1884. 

At Catlettsburg, in 1884, the annual con- 
ference convened, with Bishop Walden pre- 
siding. Bidwell Lane again returned to 
Union Church. A. Boreing was at Shinkle 
Chapel. Rev. J. D. Walsh was reappointed 
to Main Street. We have but little records 


86 


A HISTORY OF THE 


of the year at Main Street. The Leaders’ 
and Stewards’ meetings occurred semi- 
monthly. It seems that some time in Janu- 
ary Bro. Birchfield assisted in a series of 



BISHOP WALDEN. 

meetings, with what results there is no men- 
tion. At the end of the year 21 additions 
to the church were reported, making a total 
membership of 177. The pastor’s salary 
was fixed at $950, all of which is reported 


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87 


paid. Of this amount, the church paid, as 
on record, $542.30. The regular Sunday 
collections aggregated $360.50, an average 
per week of $6.93. Special collections 
were taken at two different times, $37-75 
and $91.30. Proceeds of a lecture amounted 
to $41.25, and $11.50 paid to Rev. Birch- 
field. Other monies received made the 
amount paid by the church $650. The re- 
mainder of the pastor’s salary was evidently 
made good by that generous saint, Amos 
Shinkle. The church was in a prosperous 
condition. The Sunday School had an av- 
erage attendance of 139. At the end of the 
year the officials of the church unanimously 
requested the return of their pastor. For 
benevolences : Missions $20, Freedmen’s 
Aid $8, Church Extension $7, Conference 
Claimants $7.40, Bishops $2. 

1885. 

In 1885 the conference was held at Union 
Church, Bishop Harris presiding. Rev. J. 
D. Walsh was returned to Main Street. At 
the very beginning of the year efforts were 


88 


A HISTORY OF THE 


made to sell the old church property, and 
it was during this year that the “new 
church” enterprise was launched. The 
church was still in the midst of prosperity. 



BISHOP HARRIS. 

At the end of the year the membership num- 
bered 177. Average attendance of Sunday 
School, 140. The pastor’s salary was fixed 
at $1,000; he received $1,020. Of this, the 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


S9 


church people paid : Sunday collections 
$383.34, an average weekly collection of 
$7.37, the best up to this date on record; 
by special collections $119.52, the Ladies’ 



REV. J. D. WALSH, D. D. 

Aid Society $61 ; grand total for the church, 
$563.86. The other part of the $1,020 must 
have been paid by Mr. Shinkle and the Mis- 
sionary Society. The Sunday School gave 


90 A HISTORY OF THE 

$17 to missions. Other benevolence collec- 
tions taken. 

The name of J. D. Walsh appears in the 
conference minutes for the first time in 
1869, conference held at Harrodsburg, 
Bishop Scott presiding. At this time Rev. 
Walsh was admitted into the conference. 
He came from New York, September 15, 
1868, and as a local preacher supplied Dan- 
ville and Harrodsburg. He was ordained 
Deacon in 1871 at Louisville by Bishop 
Clark. In 1872, at Union Church, Coving- 
ton, was elected treasurer of the Missionary 
Society, at the resignation of B. A. Stub- 
bins. He was elected to Elder’s orders at 
Lexington in 1873. In 1880, at Danville, 
he became the Presiding Elder of the Cov- 
ington and Maysville District. In 1883 he 
became pastor of Main Street, where he 
served three years in succession, the last 
year being the best. Leaving Main Street, 
he became pastor of Grace Church, New- 
port, to begin a good pastorate. In 1891 he 
was elected, with E. L. Shepherd, as dele- 


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91 


gate to the Ecumenical Conference of 
Methodism of the United States. 

Dr. Walsh was educated at Fort Edward 
Institute, N. Y., and Williams College, 
Massachusetts. Has been a student of 
Methodism in five General Conferences of 
our Church, in three of them as delegate, 
and in four successive General Conferences 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 
He has preached in no of the 119 counties 
of Kentucky, and is now Presiding Elder 
of the Louisville District. 

1886. 

The conference of 1886 was held at Lex- 
ington, Bishop Foss presiding. Rev. J. D. 
Walsh was. appointed pastor of Grace 
Church, Newport. Main Street received 
as pastor the Rev. George B. Easton. 

The new pastor continued the church 
building agitation, and secured a few sub- 
scriptions. The church appears to have 
been in excellent working order. The pas- 
tor’s salary for the year was fixed at $1,000, 
and reported paid. Of this the records show 


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A HISTORY OF THE 


the congregation to have paid, in Sunday 
collections, total $369.77, an average weekly 
collection of $7.11, a decrease of 26 cents 
from the previous year ; special collections 



BISHOP FOSS. 


and proceeds of one entertainment to the 
amount of $118.25 ; grand total, $488. The 
remainder of the $1,000 was, presumably, 
paid by the Missionary Society and' Mr. 
Shinkle. At the close of the year there was 


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93 


a membership of 170. Average attendance 
of the Sunday School, 149. 

The Rev. Thomas Peters Walter was 
recommended to the Covington District 



MRS. S. A. BUCKTON. 


conference for local Deacon’s orders. Also, 
“on Monday, June 13, at 1 40 a. m., Mrs. 
S. A. Buckton, wife of Abraham Buckton, 
deceased, after a long and painful illness. 


94 


A HISTORY OF THE 


Funeral services Wednesday at 1 130 p. m. 
from the residence, 520 Main Street/’ In 
compliance with the wishes of Sister Buck- 
ton, her son William presented the Board 
with a large pulpit Bible to be used in the 
church. Sister Buckton was received into 
tne church on probation August 26, 1866, by 
J. H. Bristow, and was henceforth a loyal 
and consistent member. 

REV. GEORGE B. EASTON. 

The Rev. George B. Easton was admitted 
on trial into the Kentucky Conference in 
1882, at Louisville, and appointed to Day- 
ton to succeed Bro. Stubbins. Was ad- 
mitted 1 into full connection, with W. I. Tay- 
lor and G. R. Frenger, in 1884 at Catletts- 
burg. In 1886, at Lexington, he was or- 
dained elder. At the same session he was 
appointed to Main Street, and in 1887 was 
transferred to the Cincinnati Conference. 
He is now stationed at Leesburg, Ohio. 

1887. 

The conference of 1887 convened at 
Greenup, Bishop Andrews presiding. Rev. 


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95 


C. M. Giffin returned to Union Church. 
Rev. T. F. Garrett to Shinkle Chapel. Main 
Street received as pastor the Rev. H. W. 
Bailey. It was during his pastorate that 
the present church edifice was erected. 

The major effort of the year, anticipat- 
ingly, was “building.” There are no re- 
ports extant of the general work of the 
church. The pastor’s salary was fixed at 
$1,000, of which $950 is reported paid. Of 
this, the records show that the congregation 
paid $442.66. Sunday collections were in 
the aggregate $317.45, an average weekly 
collection of $6.10. The Y. P. C. E. S. con- 
tributed toward salary $45.35, and were 
highly commended by the Board. Special 
collections were taken to the amount of 
$79.86. The Ladies’ Aid Society was very 
active during the year, and the people in 
general subscribed generously to the build- 
ing fund, making weekly payments. The 
pastor was absorbed in the one thing, and 
worked for its completion — the building en- 
terprise. 

While the church was building, the con- 


96 


A HISTORY OF THE 


gregation was invited by Union Church to 
worship with them as a congregation. The 
invitation was gratefully accepted, much to 
the relief of the struggling pastor, whose 
health was very poor. During the absence 
from the city of Rev. Giffin, the pastor of 
Union Church, Rev. Bailey supplied the 
pulpit, the appreciation of which was 
acknowledged by a gracious gift of $50 
from Amos Shinkle. The year closed with 
a membership of 113. 

Concerning the erection and dedication 
of the church, the following is from Rev. 
Bailey : “Rev. Henry W. Bailey became pas- 
tor in October, 1887, and at once began to 
push the new church movement. In Feb- 
ruary collections were made for the pur- 
chase of a new church lot, and after some 
necessary delay the present lot, northeast 
corner of Main and Eighth, was purchased. 
In the purchase of the lot we were greatly 
assisted by Brothers Amos Shinkle, John 
D. Hearne and Jacob D. Shutt, members of 
Union M. E. Church, this city. On the 10th 
day of April, 1888, work was begun 011 the 


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97 


church, and on the 4th day of November 
the church was dedicated by Rev. C. M. 
Giffin, D.D. On dedication day Amos 
Shinkle ‘took the collection,’ amounting to 
over $6,000. This brother gave us $7,500 
of the $17,500 which the entire property 
cost. In the collections for the church the 
pastor was greatly assisted by B. F. Gra- 
ziani, attorney. 

“Bishops I. W. Joyce and J. M. Walden 
were present at the dedication, with their 
wives, and the widow of Bishop Thomas 
Morris. Also, Revs. Verity, Griffiths S. G. 
Pollard and Barker, the last was of the M„ 
E. Church, South, 

“A Sunday School jubilee was held in 
the lecture room at 3 p. m., and addresses 
were delivered by Revs. J. D. Walsh and 
Brothers J. D. Hearne, W. M. Sanford and 
B. F. Graziani. Rev. T. F. Garrett deliv- 
ered a special address to the children. Rev. 
John J. Reed, of the Cincinnati Conference, 
preached at night. The preaching was very 
fine, and the addresses excellent.” 


A HISTORY OF THE 


1888. 

The conference of 1888 was held at Louis- 
ville, Bishop Vincent presiding. The Re;/. 



BISHOP VINCENT. 

Bailey was returned to Main Street. On 
April 10th of the previous conference year 
work was begun on the new church edifice, 
and on November 4th, about one month 


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99 


after conference, the church was dedicated. 
During the months of November and De- 
cember the pastor was assisted by the Rev. 
J. Verity in revival services. Fifty-one, by 
letter and probation, united with the church. 
The net increase in membership up to May 
5, 1889, was fifty-five. About this time 
Bro. Bailey’s health became so poor that 
he was compelled to give up the church, 
and was transferred to the Alabama Con- 
ference. 

The Rev. Thomas Audas, of the South 
Kansas Conference, supplied the church for 
the remainder of the conference year. The 
finances for the year were about as the pre- 
vious year. Rev. Audas served the church 
very acceptably, as shown by the following : 
“Whereas, the Rev. Thomas Audas, who 
has supplied the pastorate of this church 
since May last, in a manner most creditable 
to the church and commendable to himself, 
and faithful to his God, is about to ter- 
minate his connection with this church for 
this conference year, therefore, be it 

“Resolved, That to Rev. Thomas Audas, 


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A HISTORY OF THE 


for his profound and holy teaching of the 
Word^ hisi sweetness of character, and de- 
votion to the Cause, we, the Stewards, in 
the name of our church extend our sincere 
gratitude, and bid him a God’s speed in the 
Master’s work.” 

At the close of the year the Board elected 
Bro. B. F. Graziani as a committee to the 
annual conference held at Ashland, 1889, to 
use his influence and ‘‘best judgment, and 
if possible secure a pastor asi may in- the wis- 
dom and guidance of Divine Providence” 
promote the spiritual interests of the 
Church. The Rev. F. D. T. Bickley was 
the minister secured. 

The Rev. H. W. Bailey was received on 
trial in the Kentucky Conference at Louis- 
ville, in 1875, recommended from Mays- 
ville. In 1877 he was ordained Deacon by 
Bishop Bowman, at Lexington. He was 
reported by the committee as passing an 
excellent examination. In 1878 he was 
granted a supernumerary relation at his 
own request. In 1879, at Somerset, he was 
made effective an ordained Elder by Bishop 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


101 


Scott. In 1889, at Ashland, after having 
served a little more than a year and a halt 
at Main Street, he was transferred to the 
Alabama Conference. He is at this time 



REV. HENRY W. BAILEY. 


at Ripley, Ohio, very excellent in labors for 
the church. 

1889. 

In 1889 the conference met at Ashland, 
Bishop Merrill presiding. The Rev. F. D. 


102 


A HISTORY OF THE 


T. Bickley, D.D., was appointed pastor of 
Main Street, where he remained three years. 
Of his pastorate very little is left on record. 
His salary for the first year, according to 
the conference minutes, was fixed at $1,350, 
all of which is reported paid. He left rec- 
ord that the first quarter was the best of 
all his pastorate at Main Street. The aver- 
age weekly envelope collection for that 
quarter was $9.39, the best average on rec- 
ord to that date. However, before the year 
closed the finances relaxed, and the only 
way to account for the $1,350 is that Mr. 
Shinkle paid a great amount of it, for on 
the whole the yearly average was not bet- 
ter than the year 1885, the last year of Dr. 
Walsh’s pastorate. 

1890 AND 1891. 

The conference of 1890 convened at Bar- 
bourville, Bishop Mallalieu presiding. In 
1891 conference was held at Newport, 
Bishop Foster presiding. At both confer- 
ences Rev. Bickley was returned to Main 
Street. His second year, as was also the 


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103 


third, was characterized by useless agitation 
in the official meetings and in the church. 
Toward the latter part of the third year 
(1892) of his pastorate, the railroad evan- 



BISHOP MALLALIEU. 

gelist, Miss Adelaide Sherman, conducted 
a revival meeting of three weeks’ duration. 
Over 150 were converted, and the despair- 
ing financial condition of the church was 


104 


A HISTORY OF THE 


•enlivened, and about $650 were pledged to 
■meet the floating indebtedness. About this 
time Rev. Bickley had a call to a church in 
Michigan, and had partially consented to 



REV. F. D. T. BICKLEY. 


go, but the quickening of the church seemed 
to indicate to him that his work at Main 
Street was not done. Accordingly, he tele- 
graphed a declination, and remained. But 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


105 


the hand of Providence had been interpreted 
incorrectly. Rev. Bickley was an eloquent 
preacher, a man of intellectual resources and 
a hard worker ; but the sun of his pastorate 
set in clouds. 

The Rev. F. D. T. Bickley, D.D., was 
transferred from the Genessee Conference 
to the Kentucky by Bishop Vincent, in 1888, 
conference at Wesley Chapel, Louisville, 
and was stationed at Lexington. In 1889 
was pastor of Main Street, continuing for 
three years, when he was transferred to the 
West Virginia Conference. 

1892, 1893 AND 1894. 

The conference of 1892 met at Louisa, 
Bishop C. D. Foss presiding; session of 1893 
held at Hardinsburg, Bishop H. W. Warren 
presiding, and the session of 1894 at Louis- 
ville, Bishop S. M. Merrill presiding. This 
was the fourth and last time that Bishop 
Merrill presided over the Kentucky Con- 
ference. The above conference years were 
of the pastorate of J. M. Taulbee at Main 
Street. Not much accurate data of his 


106 


A HISTORY OP THE 


work are preserved Rev. Taulbee was 
admitted on trial in the Kentucky Confer- 
ence at Wesley Chapel, Louisville, in 1888, 
and was ordained local Deacon at Ashland 
in 1889. He was received into full connec- 
tion in 1890, at Barbourville, and ordained 
Eld'er at Louisville in 1892. His first 
charge after Elder’s ordination was Main 
Street. At the close of this pastorate he 
was located. 

The financial condition of the church was 
very low. About August 1st, 1895, Rev. 
Taulbee left the charge, and the Rev. Albert 
E. Ulrich, a local preacher of Main Street 
Church, supplied the church until confer- 
ence. 

It was during the second year (1893), 
September 24th, that Brother George P. 
Houston and family were transferred to 
Main Street from Wesley Chapel, Cincin- 
nati. He remained loyal to the church in 
her calamitous reign, contributing freely of 
his means and ability, and proved to be the 
Moses of the church. Very recently this 
excellent man and family have taken up 


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107 



their residence in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, 
but is still a loyal and generous supporter 
of Main Street, where for twelve years he 
has been an honored official, whose timely 
counsels are valued by his pastor. 


AMOS SHINKLE. 

(This memoir of Brother Shinkle, an 
honored and useful layman, was ordered 
published in the conference minutes of 

1903-) 


108 


A HISTORY OF THE 


“Whether in secular pursuits or church 
work, the influence of him of whom I speak 
was pervasive as well as persuasive. If it 
sometimes seemed persistent, it resulted 
from his confidence of the correctness of his 
convictions and the necessity for action. In 
all his lines of effort this element of his 
temperament was manifest. He liked to 
dominate when sure he was right, but he 
never domineered. 

“His close relation to this Association 
(Preachers’ Relief), his persistent efforts 
to organize it, his continuous contributions 
to support it, entitle him without dispute 
to a memorial paper on this occasion. 

“On the 1 8th day of August, 1818, in an 
humble home, in an obscure town of Brown 
County, Ohio, Amos Shinkle was born. In 
the closing hours of a beautiful Sabbath 
day in November, 1892, he died at his home 
in Covington, Kentucky, after nearly sev- 
enty-five years of life heaped full of activ- 
ity. 

“Educational opportunity seventy-jfive 
years ago was meager at best, but especially 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


m 


so in what was then the great undistricted 
‘Northwest/ What was at his command, 
however, he used, and after mastering what 
was within his reach he immediately en- 
deavored to place it at the command of 
others by undertaking to teach the school 
from which he graduated, with no little 
credit. This field did not fully invite him, 
however, and he embarked in the business 
of turning the trees of the forest into logs, 
logs into lumber, lumber into household 
furniture, and furniture into merchandise. 
The Ohio River was his highway, and the 
trees of the forest the vehicle that trans- 
ported his product. His ventures were 
prosperous before he had reached the age 
of manhood. 

“The year 1842 found him a married 
man, and the year 1846 a citizen of the city 
in which he died in 1892, on the third day 
after his semi-centennial celebration of his 
wedding day. Some here present can bear 
testimony to the abundant hospitality of that 
occasion, as hospitality that was as simple 
as it was cordial. 


110 


A HISTORY OP THE 


“None who witnessed the tender love he 
showed the noble woman he was proud to 
call his wife, suspected how near the mes- 
senger lurked, who was soon to summons 
him to leave in sorrowing widowhood the 
one to whom his unswerving fidelity and 
devotion exhibited ore of the brightest sides 
of his nature. 

“These fifty years were replete with toil. 
His entire financial resources when he ar- 
rived in Covington were less than he has 
been accustomed to bestow annually to the 
cause we to-night observe. He, however, 
took an active part in all that concerned 
the city he had chosen for his home. He 
presided in her legislative bodies, he builded 
her schoolhouses, he lighted her streets and 
dwellings, he helped rescue her enterprises 
from bankruptcy, and spanned the Ohio 
with a highway that is not surpassed with 
grace, beauty and strength, in all the coun- 
try that has since been developed by labor 
and learning, in an empire crowded 
with magnificent enterprises and splendid 
achievements. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


Ill 


“He was a counsellor among the wisest, 
and a leader among the most heroic at the 
time he entered upon the Lord’s work. 
What wonder that such a character should 
come to the front in the work of the Church. 
And so in a few years the temple was 
erected in which he so loved to worship, and 
for which he was so abundant in labors. 
The Sunday School early attracted his at- 
tention, and in its development he took 
great pride, surpassing in zeal and fitness 
for religious training many whose religious 
opportunities had far surpassed in possibili- 
ties any he had ever enjoyed. 

“But local work alone was not permitted 
him. He soon became recognized by the 
counsellors of the Church at large. The 
minutes of the General Conference of 1872 
testify to his attendance on that, the first 
into which the laity was admitted to mem- 
bership, and an unbroken record of his 
participation in its deliberations and legis- 
lation appears in them until 1892. In all 
its work he was acknowledged a persuasive, 
fearless and untiring factor, the associate of 


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the earnest and devoted of the Church. 

“But from his broader field of usefulness 
we turn with cheerful memories, on this oc- 
casion, to the tender love he bore for the 
Church in Kentucky. And here, brethren, 
the pen hesitates and falters, not for want 
of material, but for its abundance — so abun- 
dant that to enumerate is impossible and to 
discriminate difficult. But there is no occa- 
sion. You know it all. ‘A hero in the fight’ 
is fallen. ‘A leader in Israel’ is departed. 
And we are left to sigh ‘for the touch of a 
vanished hand.’ 

“But we sorrow not as those without 
hope, for in the latter days of his life we 
believe that he was conscious of the ap- 
proach of death, and it is certain that his 
heart was filled with peace — nay, with joy, 
for he could sing, ‘It is well with my soul/ 
“Robert T. Miller.” 

1895 AND 1896. 

I11 1895 the conference was held in Union 
Church, Covington, Bishop Foss presiding. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


113 


At this session the following resolutions, 
were offered : 

“Whereas, R. T. Miller, of Covington,. 
Kv., has endowed a free bed in Christ’s. 



ROBERT T. MILLER. 


Hospital, Cincinnati, by gift of $5,000.00 y 
and has named it the Kentucky Conference 
Bed, therefore, 

“Resolved, That we hereby express our 


114 


A HISTORY OF THE 


thanks to Bro. R. T. Miller for this recog- 
nition of our conference. 

“J. D. Walsh, 

“J. W. Zimmerman/' 



BISHOP HURST. 

In 1896 the session convened at Vaucc- 
burg, Bishop Hurst presiding. The Rev. 
R. T. Biven served Main Street during 
these two years. No records are preserved. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


115 


These were gloomy days for Main Street. 
Only the tried and the true of the member- 
ship survived. 

1897, 1898 AND 1899. 



BISHOP NINDE. 

The conference of 1897 was held at Pine- 
ville, Bishop Mallalieu presiding. Session 
in 1898 convened at Maysville, Bishop 
Ninde presiding. At this session James 


116 


A HISTORY OF THE 


Marcus Newton was admitted into the con- 
ference on trial, recommended from the 
Middlesborough District Conference, and 
stationed at Middlesborough. In 1899, at 



BISHOP FITZGERALD. 

Newport, Bishop Fitzgerald presiding. 
During these years the Rev. Thomas Han- 
ford, D.D., was pastor of Main Street, and 
to him more than any other man Main 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


117 


Street owes her survival of the days of dark- 
ness. No detailed history of these years 
can be given. These were years of recon- 
struction, and the pastor nobly clung to the 



BISHOP CRANSTON. 

church and her interests. No man could 
have been selected better qualified for such 
work. But he did it at great personal sac- 
rifice. 


118 


A HISTORY OF THE 



1900, 1901 AND 1902. 

The annual conference of 1900 convened 
at Somerset, Bishop Cranston presiding. 
At this session the Rev. C. J. Howes, D.D., 


REV. E. L. SHEPARD, 

Former Presiding Elder of the Covington District. 

was transferred to Newton, Kansas, and 
James Marcus Newton, whose previous ap- 
pointment was Epworth Church, Louisville, 
went to Boston University to take up theo- 


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119 



MRS. FANNY SPEED 



120 


A HISTORY OF THE 


logical study. The session of 1901 was held 
at Ashland, Bishop Andrews presiding. In 
1902 conference met at Louisville, Bishop 
Walden presiding. At this session the death 
of Mrs. Fanny Speed, a most generous and 
lovable saint, and the mother of Kentucky 
Methodism, was reported, and suitable 
memoir read. This benevolent woman left 
$250,000.00 for educational purposes to the 
Kentucky Conference. 

During these years the Rev. John G. 
Dover had an excellent pastorate at Main 
Street. Through his judicial and even- 
tempered administration the embarrassment 
of a street paving debt of more than $300 
and other indebtedness to the amount of 
$1,250, was overcome. This was achieved 
owing to him being president of the Church 
Extension Society of the Kentucky Confer- 
ence, and hence had influence with the par- 
ent Board. By his well-articulated claims 
and persuasive personality he succeeded in 
securing the amount sufficient to cancel 
these debts in toto from that benevolent or- 
ganization. Therefore, if any church were 


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121 


ever obligated to large contributions to the 
benevolent societies of our Church at large, 
Main Street must acknowledge that she is 
thus honor bound. Rev. Dover’s pastorate 
was characterized throughout by unselfish- 
ness. He cut the list of membership down 
to its proper proportions and gave a straight- 
forward, honest and clean account of what- 
ever he was able to accomplish during the 
conference years, whether that be much or 
little. His successor found the membership, 
though small, well disposed and most gra- 
ciously loyal to Rev. Dover, whose profitable 
and happy services they still acknowledge 
with gratitude. 

The Rev. John G. Dover was born and 
brought up in Durham, England. He en- 
tered the local ministry while yet in Eng- 
land, and gave evidence of a brilliant career. 
In his young manhood he came to the 
United States, and supplied pulpits for two 
and one-half years in Ohio. He was or- 
dained local Deacon and admitted on trial 
into the Kentucky Conference in 1885, by 
Bishop W. L. Harris, at Union Church, 


122 


A HISTORY OF THE 


Covington, with Davis P. Holt, John Col- 
ledge, Thomas P. Walter, Charles W. Sut- 



REV. JOHN G. DOVER. 

ton and others. He was received into the 
full connection with the conference in 1887 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


125 


at Greenup, by Bishop E. G. Andrews. Was 
ordained Elder by Bishop S. M. Merrill, at 
Ashland, in 1889. Rev. Dover has had pas- 
torates in some of the important churches 



BISHOP JOYCE. 

of the conference. From 1892 to 1895 he 
served the Church at Wesley Chapel, Louis- 
ville, to the delight of his growing congre- 
gation. He discontinued his pastorate at 


124 


A HISTORY OF THE 


this place to become Presiding Elder of the 
Ashland District. In 1899 he was the popu- 
lar pastor at Somerset, where he entertained 
the conference with profuse hospitality. 
From Somerset he came to Main Street, 
serving three years, each with increasing 
interest and success, and from Main Street 
to Latonia, where he has renovated com- 
pletely the church property and beautified 
the parsonage. Here his pastorate con- 
tinues. Thus wherever the Church has 
stationed him he has succeded, much to the 
gratification of all concerned. 

1903. 

The conference of 1903 convened at 
Union Church, Covington, Bishop Joyce 
presiding. At this session James Marcus 
Newton had returned from Boston Univer- 
sity, and was appointed pastor of Main 
Street. 

First in order was to increase the congre- 
gations. To do this more effectively the 
pastor appealed to the Elizabeth Gamble 
Deaconess Home, and Mrs. Haynes, the 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


125 


superintendent, assigned as the pastor’s as- 
sistant Miss Edith Golay, of Vevay, Ind.,. 
who proved to be a woman of rare ability 
and goodness. Also two other students of 
the institution devoted the Sabbaths and an 



JAMES MARCUS NEWTON. 

afternoon of each week to the parish. 
Within three months about 1,500 calls had 
been made, and the congregation filled the 
vestry. 

The next thing to accomplish was the re- 


126 


A HISTORY OF THE 


modeling of the auditorium. Before the 
year closed the auditorium had been fres- 
coed and beautifully carpeted, the art win- 
dows restored, the interior varnished, soft 
bricks removed from exterior walls, but- 
tresses reset, roof repaired, new gutterings, 



MARIDALE HEARNE NEWTON. 

toilet rooms constructed in the basement of 
the church, sewers across rear end, then full 
length of the lot, and across Main Street, 
door and partition in library room, furnaces 
rebuilt, and yard raised, graded and fenced. 
All improvements made increased the value 
of the church property more than $3,000. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


127 


All of these improvements were made pos- 
sible through the generosity of the late J. D. 
Hearne, who contributed largest ; also Mrs. 
Susan Park, Bradford Shinkle, James N. 
Gamble, W. P. Bausmith, architect, and 
John A. Johnson. At the close of the con- 
ference year about $300 indebtedness re- 
mained, all of which was paid within two 
months of the pastor’s return. 

Upon entering his work at Main Street, 
the pastor adopted as his working principle 
sane evangelism, aggressive and continuous. 
Everything that promoted this major work 
was utilized. Owing to illness of Mrs. Ed. 
Lowe, faithful organist of Main Street for 
many years, and devoted member, Mrs, 
Newton took charge of the music, or- 
ganizing both senior and junior choirs; 
also assisted in the work . in general 
with the children, and in all the work of the 
church. It is to her more largely than to- 
iler husband, the pastor, that the prosperity 
of the church was due. Miss Edith Golay, 
who has already been mentioned, added 
much to the success of the church. Her 


128 


A HISTORY OF THE 



arduous efforts in calling, and in the spir- 
itual work of the church can not be too 
highly spoken of, and will never be forgot- 
ten by those who knew her. With a beauti- 


MRS. JAMES MARCUS NEXVTON. 

ful home at Vevay, Ind., and loving and 
generous parents, she left all, to devote her 
services without price to the work of the 
Master. Many within the parish have been 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


129 - 


brought to the Savior through her wise and 
persuasive counsel. Miss Golay has never 
severed her relations as assistant to the 
church, but owing to ill health, which we 



MISS EDITH GOLAY. 

hope now is entirely overcome, has been 
compelled to return to her home for long 
and frequent vacations. The corps of church 
workers are always eager for her return. 


130 


A HISTORY OF THE 


Many young people were attracted to the 
church. Saturday night is the night of 
their great temptation, when the theaters, 
dancing halls, museums and saloons are all. 
open wide and at their best, while the church 
was closed. Believing it the duty of the 
Church to reduce the temptations of the 
vicinity, Main Street opened her doors on 
Saturday night and offered literary enter- 
tainments composed of the best talent in and 
around Cincinnati. A request was made of 
the Epworth Leagues of Covington, Cin- 
cinnati and surrounding cities, many of 
whom responded, each providing one high- 
class- entertainment. Oftentimes an infor- 
mal reception with refreshments was ar- 
ranged, but all without price. However, to 
make these purely Methodistic the “plates” 
were passed and any little mite received. 
These entertainments were provided 
throughout the season, with all available 
space crowded. Many of those who had 
hitherto attended no church are now faith- 
ful members of Main Street. During the 
conference year eighty-two were added to 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


131 


the membership. Seventy-three confessed 
faith in the Savior. 

The officials for the year were : Stewards, 
F. W. Points, R. N. Kemerer, Emma Drew, 
Mary Ramsay, Harry E. Hicks, John Dall- 
man, W. H. Gardiner, T. V. Baker. Trus- 
tees : G. P. Houston, Joseph Schapert. Sun- 
day School Superintendent, Everett Day. 
The finances for the year in total were as 
follows : The pastor’s salary paid by the 
church, $600.00; by J. D. Hearne, $75.00; 
by R. T. Miller, $40.00; by Ralph Justice, 
$42.00; by Missionary Society, $160.00; 
total pastor's salary, $917.00. During the 
year the pastor and wife received many val- 
uable gifts from the church and friends. 

The current expenses of the church for 
the year, including the Sunday School, were 
^200.00. Presiding Elder $35.00, confer- 
ence claimants $10.00, Episcopal fund $6.00, 
missions $45.00, church extension $17.00, 
Sunday School Union $2.00, Tract Society 
$2.00. Other collections $15.00. Total 
monies for year $1,268.00. In addition to 
this sum, all improvements were paid for 


132 


A HISTORY OP THE 



THE OFFICIAL BOARD. 



MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


133 


OFFICIAL BOARD. 

On page 132, beginning at top, reading 
from left to right, first row, F. W. Points, 
W. H. Gardiner; second row, A. H. Cher- 
rington, Mrs. William Drew, Rev. Mr. 



BISHOP GOODSELL. 

Presided at Conference of 1905. 

Hughes; third row, J. B. Stewart, H. E. 
Hicks, C. F, Youmans, T. V. Baker; 
fourth row, Everett Day, Rev. Mr. New- 
ton, GeO; P. Houston ; fifth row, G. W. 
Kennedy, J. T. Walker. 


134 


A HISTORY OF THE 


with exception of $300.00, which was paid 
soon after conference. 

During the year the Ladies’ Aid Society 
was faithful in their social and financial 
work, much to the encouragement of the 
pastor. Near the close of the conference 
year a W. F. M. S. was organized with 
twenty charter members. The Sunday 
School gradually improved, but owing to 
the Tack of teachers and workers did not 
progress with its privileges. The year ended 
free of debt of all running expenses. 

1904. 

The session of the annual conference of 
1904 was held at Barbourville, Bishop War- 
ren presiding. The Rev. G. F. Oliver, D.D., 
of the East Ohio Conference, was stationed 
at Union Church. His predecessor, the Rev. 
R. I. Watkins, D. D., became Correspond- 
ing Secretary of the Board of Education, 
and later was transferred to Trinity Church. 
Staten Island, N. Y. Rev. Newton was re- 
turned to Main Street. 

The work of the second year began in the 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


135 


completion of improvements. The last 
thing accomplished for the year in this line 
was the handsome papering of the Sunday 
School room, largely through the efforts of 



KISHOP WARREN. 

Fred. F. Mabus, cornetist of the church. 
The pastor’s time was then turned to the 
general church work. Congregations in- 
creased. Continually evangelistic efforts 
were made. Seventy-eight expressed their 


136 


A HISTORY OF THE 



THE LADIES’ AID SOCIETY. 



MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


137 


THE LADIES’ AID SOCIETY. 

On page 136, beginning at top, reading 
from left to right, first row, Mrs. James 
Marcus Newton, Mrs. Ida Dale Warcup, 
Mrs. Florence Darnell, Mrs. Kate Spald- 
ing, Mrs. Mary Ramsay; second row, 
Mrs. Mary Walker, Mrs. Ed. T. Lowe, 
Mrs. William Drew, Mrs. Harriet Hicks, 
Mrs. J. Hollingworth ; third row, Mrs. 
Fred F. Mabus, Mrs. T. V. Baker, Mrs. 
Fred Barry. 


13S 


A HISTORY OF THE 



GROUP OF SENIOR CHOIR. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 139 



GROUP OF SENIOR CHOIR. 


140 


A HISTORY OF THE 


GROUP OF SENIOR CHOIR. 

On page 138, beginning at top, reading 
from left to right, first row, Martha 
Lang,. Lennie Cook, Belle Fields ; sec- 
ond row, John Ackley, J. W. Ackman, 
Ed. T. Lowe; third row, Lucy Gardiner, 
Mrs. G. W. Kenney, Mrs. James Marcus 
Newton; fourth row, Mrs. T. V. Baker, 
Mrs. Ed. Lowe, Susie Spalding ; fifth 
row, G. W. Kenney, Linzid Gardiner, 
Fred F. Mabus. 

GROUP OF SENIOR CHOIR. 

On page 139, beginning at top, reading 
from left to right, first row, Minnie Bar- 
rons, Mrs. William Drew, Mrs. Florence 
Darnell, Jennie Martin, Everett Day, Mrs 
M. C. Costello ; third row, Anna Chaney, 
Mrs. W. C. Carr, Miss Davis; fourth row, 
Herbert Mabus, C. F. Youmans, William 
Baker ; fifth row, Mrs. Everett Day, 
Grace Ramsey, Mrs. J. Hollingworth. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


141 


GROUP OP JUNIOR CHOIR 

On page 142, beginning at top, reading 
from left to right, first row, Helen Ryle, 
Rebecca Ryle; second row, William 
Lowe, Clara Huber, Nellie Gardiner; 
third row, Sadie Ramsey, Oval Stewart, 
Tracy Armstrong; fourth row, Edna 
Meyers, Lydia Thompson. 


GROUP OF JUNIOR CHOIR 

On page 143, beginning at top, reading 
from left to right, first row, Bessie Stew- 
art, Allene Bernhardt ; second row, Edna 
Thompson, Squire Baker, Mattie Baker; 
third row, Sylvia Baker, Florence Bern- 
hardt, Julia Darnell; fourth row, Alice 
Thompson, Susie Parton. 


142 


A HISTORY OF THE 



GROUP OF JUNIOR CHOIR 




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MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 143 


GROUP OK JUNIOR CHOIR 


144 


A HISTORY OF THE 



GROUP OF W. F. M. S. 



MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


145 



SOME MAIN STREET PEOPLE 



146 


A HISTORY OP THE 


On page 144, beginning at top, reading 
from left to right, first row, Mrs. J. B. 
Stewart, Mrs. W. A. Meyers ; second row, 
Mrs. Martha Musgrove, Mrs. F. W. 
Points, Mrs. Mary Barrons ; third row, 
Mrs. Lizzie Armstrong, Miss Mary Reed, 
Mrs. S. S. Ackley ; fourth row, Mrs. M. A. 
Pierce, Mrs. Robinson, Miss Limar; fifth 
row, Mrs. E. Foulks, Mrs. W. H. Gardi- 
ner. 


On page 145, beginning at top, reading 
from left to right, first row, Mrs. Ed. E. 
Walker, recently of Main st. ; Mrs. 
Thomas, early member ; second row, 
Clinton Gardiner, Mrs. Reed, early mem- 
ber, now deceased; Ed. E, Walker, re- 
cently official of Main St. ; third row, W. 
A. Meyers, C. F. Darnell, S. S. Ackley ; 
fourth row, Mr. Kindell, Jr., Mr. Kin- 
dell. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


147 


saving faith in the Savior. In a special 
revival service of three weeks’ duration dur- 
ing the winter the entire church was awak- 
ened and many silently but certainly con- 
verted. Within the year seventy-eight were 
added to the membership, forty of whom 
on probation. The Ladies’ Aid Society, the 
W. F. M. S., the Junior League, the senior 
and junior choirs all developed and grew in 
interest. Various social and literary efforts 
were made with splendid success, and the 
work in all the departments of the church 
was very happy. United, cordial in greet- 
ing, happy in association, susceptible to 
spiritual teachings, the people of Main 
Street have no superiors. Early in the year 
the Covington District Convention of the 
W. F. M. S. was held in Main Street, when 
the ladies handsomely entertained with 
luncheon their co-workers in this grand 
movement to the delight of the church. 

The great need, and one that embarrassed 
the work at Main Street most, was that of 
a parsonage. For more than a year many 
and intricate plans and propositions were 


148 


A HISTORY OF THE 


set forth by the pastor, with only partial 
success. One rainy afternoon the pastor 
presented a plan to J. D. Hearne, who was 
much pleased with it, but feared the under- 



MAIN STREET M. E. PARSONAGE. 

taking too great for the pastor with his other 
work. He was a loyal friend of the pastor 
and wife. In a few weeks Mr. Hearne sent 
for Mr. Newton, and informed him that he 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


149 


had decided to purchase a parsonage, “a com- 
fortable home/’ and present it to the church 
with a clear title. Then with characteristic 
wit, he remarked : “My plan works easier 
than yours.” He requested the pastor and 
wife to look through the house that is now 
the parsonage, and inform him if they 
should be pleased to have it as a parsonage, 
so thoughtful was he in his last days of the 
comfort of God’s struggling ones. Thus the 
cozy eight-room house, with modern con- 
veniences, at 832 Willard Street, became the 
property of Main Street Church. 

A few days later when Rev. Newton 
called Mr. Hearne expressed his desire that 
the parsonage be supplied with some heavy 
furniture. He had in mind a range, com- 
bination of gas and coal, that he wanted 
the pastor to secure. “We have one, and 
they are good,” he said. In a few days the 
pastor called upon Mrs. Susan Park, who 
congratulated 1 him upon the “new parson- 
age.” During the conversation he men- 
tioned Mr. Hearne’s idea of a range, and she 
at once expressed her willingness to pur- 


150 


A HISTORY OF THE 


chase the described range, at a cost of about 
$100.00. The range in a short time was in 
use in the parsonage. Later Bradford 
Shinkle contributed $50.00 to the comfort of 



MRS. SUSAN B. PARK. 

the parsonage. Also, a very substantial 
bed room suite was received from Mr. and 
Mrs. John A. Johnson. 

The officials for the year were : Trustees, 


MAIN ST. M. E CHURCH. 


151 


G. P. Houston, T. V. Baker, F. W. Points 
and Everett Day. Stewards, A. M. Cher- 
rington, Emma Drew, W. H. Gardiner, H. 
E. Hicks, G. W. Kenney, J. B. Stewart, J. 
T. Walker and C. F. Youmans. 

The finances of the year show a marked 
increase over the previous year. Pastor’s 
salary : Paid by congregation $700.00, by 
J. D. Hearne $25.00, by Missionary Society 
$200.00 ; total pastor’s salary, $925.00, and 
parsonage. The annual current expenses of 
the church, including Sunday School, were 
$351.00; Presiding Elder $40.00, Missions 
$55.00, Church Extensions $10.00, Freed- 
man’s Aid $16.00, Education $4.00, Sunday 
School Union $3.00, Tract Society $2.00, 
Episcopal Fund $9.00, Conference Claim- 
ants $12.00. Insurance on church property 
was increased from $2,000.00 to $9,000.00, 
at a co; t of $89.00. Total monies for the 
year, $1,525.00. In addition to this, $600.00 
was paid on improvements, and $3,000.00 
paid for parsonage, making a grand total of 
$5,125.00. 


H52 


A HISTORY OF THE 


From the time Rev. Newton met Brother 
Hearne until the death of the latter, they 
were close, confidential associates in the 
work at Main Street. Brother Hearne 



JONATHAN D. HEARNE. 

•would eagerly await results from everything 
IMr. Newton undertook, and expected that 
lie would be successful, and the Lord greatly 
favored the endeavors, much to the surprise 
<of the pastor himself. When Rev. Newton 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


153 


had exhausted all other sources in raising 
the amount of money necessary for the ex- 
tensive improvements, Mr. Hearne came to 
his relief, and by very generous contribu- 
tions enabled all needed improvements to 
be made and paid for. Aside from this as- 
sistance, he was a great spiritual associate 
and friend. How many the precious 
meetings at his beside, when, unbosoming 
his great emotion, he would tell of his 
life, of his fearlessness of death, of his 
trust in the Savior, of his abounding hope 
in the future life. His good wife and 
afflicted son, whose death preceded his by 
some years, were to him constant incentives 
heavenward. What glorious faith he had in 
Redeeming Love! What splendid abilities 
to achieve ! But his achievements for the 
highest good were never heralded from the 
housetop. Those who only partially knew 
him may have thought him excessively 
stern, void of sympathy and of emotion, 
but those who knew him best found in him 
great fnagnanimity. With a paper read at 
his funeral by his pastor, the Rev. G. F. 


154 


A HISTORY OF THE 


Oliver, D.D., this sketch is most fittingly 
closed : 

“Jonathan D. Hearne, third son of Can- 
non and 1 Sallie Owen Hearne, was born in 
Bourbon County, Ky., August 7, 1829. His 
spirit entered heaven from Covington, June 
15, I905- 

“Of a sturdy, strong-minded race of pio- 
neers, he was left an orphan at ten years 
of age. Self-reliant in boyhood, reared upon 
a farm, apprenticed as a carpenter at seven- 
teen, he entered a village store at twenty, 
and through his enterprise, integrity and 
industry, soon forged to the front as a mer- 
chant. His early success became the proph- 
ecy of his future and eminent business 
career. 

“Early in life he was converted', and be- 
came a member of the Methodist Church, 
South. His zeal and usefulness soon gave 
him a prominence in church councils which 
continued till the end of his life. 

“During the conflicts and discussions of 
1865 he withdrew from the Church South 
and united with the Union Methodist Epis^ 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


155 


copal Church of Covington, of which he has 
been an honored and official member for 
nearly forty years. Till his health failed 
within the past year, he was a regular at- 
tendant upon public worship, and a liberal 
supporter of all the enterprises of his own 
beloved church. He was strongly benevo- 
lent in his bearing toward ministers of the 
Gospel, and those in need everywhere. A 
multitude of charities unknown to the pub- 
lic made fragrant and beautiful the last years 
of his eventful life. The generous bequest 
of a parsonage to the Main Street Methodist 
Society, and his munificence provision for 
the repairs of Union Church, now in prog- 
ress, are special samples of his Christian 
munificence, which crowned his closing 
days. 

“Brother Hearne was broad in his sym- 
pathies, as well as devout in spirit. For 
many years he has been President of the 
American Bible Society of Covington and 
vicinity, to which society he showed many 
favors, because it lay very near his heart. 


156 


A HISTORY OF THE 


He was a steady and generous friend ft) the 
Young Men’s Christian Association. 

“He not only loved the Bible, the Sab- 
bath and righteousness ; he hated iniquity. 
He has been for years the President of the 
‘Western Society for the Suppression of 
Vice.’ He has contributed largely to the 
moral and civic interests of Covington and 
Cincinnati. Every enterprise for the over- 
throw of evil and the promotion of right- 
eousness found a quick response in this 
champion of Uprightness. He was a pro- 
moter of moral reforms, however varied in 
execution. 

“Mr. Hearne’s long and successful busi- 
ness career as merchant, manufacturer and 
banker is so well known as to demand mere 
mention in this memoir. With highest 
ideals of business honor, he inflexibly ad- 
hered to principles of equity and his own 
conscience. He would suffer rather than 
do wrong. A Dusiness acquaintance of many 
years echoes common public opinion when 
he describes him : ‘He was always an ex- 
ponent of the highest ideals in business* and 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


157 


was a good man, not only in his business 
life, but in every phase of his affairs/ 

“Though just, judicial and inflexible in 
matters of judgment, Brother Hearne was 
a man of very tender heart and a splendid 
exemplar of faithful friendship. He lived 
for his friends. 

“His companion died six years ago. Four 
children also preceded him. He ever showed 
an affectionate regard for his own house- 
hold. Two daughters, Mrs. C. C. Chase and 
Mrs. E. S. Ebbert, and two brothers, James 
and William, remain to mourn the loss of a 
noble Christian father, brother, friend. 

“His final weeks were those of suffering, 
but of bright hope. In response to the ques- 
tion, ‘How does the future look?’ he re- 
plied, ‘All bright and clear/ He loved to 
respond to the prayers of pastor and friends 
who visited his bedside. He showed a deep 
interest in all earthly things while he re- 
mained in the flesh, and an equal apprecia- 
tion of the glory of the future light, which 
ever seemed real and near at hand. He 
finished well his mortal work, and was ripe 


158 


A HISTORY OF THE 


for heaven. The memory of such a man 
is blessed. His family circle can illy afford 
to lose the presence of such a head and 
father. The community may not soon re- 
place such a benefactor. The Church may 
well mourn such a friend and philanthropist. 
Some of us are sad, and all are solemn at 
parting from one whom we had learned to 
love and prize on account of his rare virtues 
and Christian goodness. But we bow in 
submission and share his faith and hope. 
He rests in peace ; his works follow him. 
We will live to honor his memory and per- 
petuate his work. He lives on high to en- 
joy his reward and Christ’s welcome for- 
ever. As Longfellow says: 

“ ‘Were a star quenched on high, 

For ages would its light, 

Still traveling downward from the sky 
Shine on our mortal sight. 

“ ‘So when a good man dies, 

For years beyond our ken, 

The light he leaves behind 
Lies upon the paths of men.’ ” 


THE MAIN STREET PULPIT 


CONTENTS : 


“ The Gospel Story of the Sky.’" 


“ The Gospel Story of Salt.” 


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THE GOSPEL STORY OF THE SKY. 

“Knowest thou the ordinances of the 
heavens ?” — Job 38 133. 

One of old has said, “When I consider - 
Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the 
moon and the stars which Thou hast or- 
dained, what is man that Thou art mindfuf 
of him?” Nor is it unnatural for the- 
Psalmist, when studying the tremendous- 
mystery of man, of life, and of God, to look- 
above him. The mystery, like the heavens,, 
was above him. 

For ages men somehow had conceived 
that the fortunes of individuals and nations- 
were bound up with the aspects and places- 
of the heavenly bodies, and could be pre- 
dicted of them. It was universally believed 
that could the places of certain bodies in the- 
sky at the birth of any person be well ascer- 
tained, it would be possible to infer the 
general character of his lot in life, and his- 
life’s critical periods. Men have always had 
great ambitions for being prophets and 


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hearing prophets, hence they watched the 
mazy heavens, and out of such glittering 
fractions of information as they could 
gather, built up for themselves a stupendous 
system of fortune-telling. 

It is well that we have some better 
reasons for studying the sky. Study it to 
know the better its Author. To catch 
glimpses of Him, to glean sparks and 
flashes of His wisdom from the blazing 
dome, to know something of the “house we 
live in,” and to have a glancing look at in- 
finitude — these conceptions are the more 
worthy of the heavens, which declare the 
glory of God. Then with great awe let us 
turn our faces upward, to the awful ex- 
panse of infinitude. 

Should we make a painstaking study of 
the sky we should find ourselves at the cen- 
ter of what appears an immense hollow half- 
globe, on the distant surface of which ap- 
pear the heavenly bodies. At night-fall we 
see the soft silver moon, with fleets of stars, 
swimming through space. Watch the host 
for awhile from behind some building and 


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you may satisfy yourself that they are in 
motion westward, revolving about an im- 
aginary line drawn from the north to the 
south, but elevated about 40 degrees above 
the horizon. That very bright white star 
low in the west is Venus, named for the 
Greek and Roman goddess of beauty. Yon- 
der, almost over head, is another star of 
scarcely inferior brightness, but of more 
masculine hue; that is Jupiter, named for 
the king of classic divinities. East of the 
zenith, almost one-third of the way down, 
you may perceive a much smaller star of 
ruddy light, Mars by name, appropriately 
called for the bloody god of war. That 
smaller star, just visible to the naked eye, 
almost on the eastern horizon, is Saturn, 
named for the father of the principal gods, 
and sufficiently dim to represent one that is 
said to have the very unfatherly and un- 
handsome trick of eating his own children. 
These stars, and many others that are not 
seen without a glass', are called planets, be- 
cause they wander about greatly on the sky. 

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hairy stars, which are still greater wan- 
derers. These are of a denser part more or 
less bright, surrounded by a haze which 
often is found expanded into a pale streamer 
of prodigious length. 

All other stars bear the name of fixed 
stars, because to ordinary observation there 
is little or no apparent change in their posi- 
tions with respect to each other. Some of 
these bodies are real princes for shining, 
and so, from time immemorial have been 
honored with proper names. Sirius, for ex- 
ample, is almost as brilliant as Venus her- 
self, with a ray as frosty and keen as ever 
glanced from an iceberg. Another is Alde- 
barar, another Capella. Nearly half way 
up the northern heavens is a star by no 
means bright, but which has been on men’s 
lips, and in their eyes oftener than any other 
star whatever. The star by which ships 
have steered, armies marched, and bondmen 
fled — the North Star. Count some twenty 
of the brightest of the fixed stars on the 
whole sphere, and you have the stars of 
the first magnitude. Count some sixty of 


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next brightest and you have those of the 
second magnitude. Some two hundred of 
the next order of brilliancy, and you have 
those of the third. Six orders of magnitude 
are visible to the naked eye; ten orders 
more include those seen by the telescope. 

First, then, let me ask you if you ever 
observed a more splendid portrayal of 
kindly vigilance than that which God has 
thrown over us, high up in space ? The sky 
is the portrait of the Guardian Angel, the 
Holy Ghost. Those sleepless star-eyes, with 
not a whisper, not a rustle through all the 
vasty dome, seem listening for heavenly 
secrets, eager to flash them to us. It was 
they who first told us that the King was 
coming. According to Kepler, pale Saturn 
walked up the crystal vault, and manly 
Jupiter ran to meet him, and they embraced 
each other. To the astrologers it was as if 
the prodigal had returned. Saturn repent- 
ing of his folly, Jupiter running to forgive 
him. Whereupon the angels stepped out 
upon the diamond studs of the sky and sang, 
“Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, 


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goodwill to man.” Yes, the first gospel 
story was told by the stars, and nations 
heard it. Men assembled to behold together 
the heavenly parade. The Magi needed no 
book to direct their worship; the heaven 
was an illuminated missal. The story of the 
coming of the world’s King flamed from 
this azure volume above, printed and pic- 
tured in silver and gold, and laid across the 
sky’s fair face, opened wide, for all eyes. 
Was ever so noble a sight ! What kindly 
interweavings of the great and the lovely ! 
What gorgeous competitions and combina- 
tions of the majestic and the beautiful! All 
steeped in the grave glory of immemorial 
and supreme antiquity. Eonian ages, the 
eternal, was looking down on men. It was 
the eternal superb array of God’s love. 

Look up graciously to the stars. They 
call you higher. Let them instruct you of 
God, and of life, and even of your valued 
soul. Their signal has led armies to vic- 
tory, their eloquent silence has filled 
volumes with poetry, their fire-glint has 
charmed creation. When Job’s friends for- 


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sook him, the “stars sang to him,” when 
the Israelites despaired in battle the “stars 
fought against Sisera,” and they told Joel 
of “coming distress.” The Holy Spirit, 
man’s comforter, defense, and signal, is in 
the world to champion the fates of dying 
man, but His peaceful glory is mirrored in 
the sky. 

Secondly, the sky may become to us an 
Arabia, in which we may enter to consider 
the miraculous of the life of God. The very 
ordinances of the sky are miracles to men. 
The “blue deep” is the eternal expanse of 
wonderment. The celestial sphere is noth- 
ing but indefinitely extended space, made to 
appear colored at times by the hue, made to 
appear rounded always by the shape of our 
atmosphere. There is nothing solid yonder 
to which the celestial bodies can be attached. 
They are absolutely hung on nothing — 
though Milton ventures to take poetic license 
and hang one orb, at least, by a golden 
chain. 

If we could visit mid-space, it would 
seem a perfect void, also dreadfully dark 


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;and cold, and silent. The higher we go. in 
•our atmosphere the colder it becomes. All 
mountain summits, above a few thousand 
feet, are covered with perpetual snow. 
Persons ascending in balloons at last reach 
a cold that is intolerable. They approach 
the confines of eternal winter, that for 
silence and motionless fierceness, laughs to 
scorn all that we have of arctic and antarctic. 
According to Sir John Herschel, we have 
to go only fifty miles from the earth’s sur- 
face to reach 132 degrees Fahrenheit. 
Could one suddenly drop down any moist 
thing at this point it would instantly explode 
like a pistol, though without sound, and turn 
to stone as though touched by a magician’s 
wand. And if he should attempt to express 
his feelings to say, “How awful this cold 
and blackness !” no sound, no specter of a 
sound, could issue from his shouting lips. 

What a miraculous eternity, our sky ! Far 
beyond our understanding, yet under the 
regime of natural larj^s. The glorious Heav- 
enly Home itself could display no greater 
mysteries. Then why should we think it 


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anything incredible for Jesus, in His display 
of the Heavenly, which is able to redeem 
a lost and sin-wrecked soul, to call to still- 
ness the storm, place at bay the angry wave, 
take up from the decay of earth a beloved 
body, embrace a child from death and lay 
it gently in a weeping mother’s arms, and 
with but His voice to allay the evil tempers 
and proclivities of men ? Before I look into 
the sky I believe that matchless Prince of 
Truth, but none of His mighty works are to 
me greater subjects of mystery than endless 
space itself, the eternal before my eyes, con- 
trolled by natural laws, or the innumerable 
paradoxes of the sky. 

Thirdly, nor is the sky void of the reve- 
lation of grace for struggling mankind. Do 
you see above you the moon blazing like a 
king’s gem ? And those starry diamonds 
carelessly tossed in space ? What an elegant 
array ! But they are bosomed in perfect jet. 
And so the righteous, the obedient, suffering 
saints, whose losses have reduced them to 
poverty and loneliness, the simple souls that 
go trusting though their pathway be black 


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as an Arabian night, shall shine as many 
stars. And they shine the brighter because 
their background is the blacker. The stars 
are of molten clay and earth, but the poor, 
darkened sinners that have been redeemed 
are stars of mercy. Were we near the stars 
they would not appear to shine, and* so 
oftentimes souls of mercy do not light up 
the earth, but were we as far away from 
them as Heaven their brightness would dim 
our eyes. Take courage, redeemed ones, for 
your souls are the stars of Heaven, and 
angels behold you afar and envy your 
brilliance. What care you that you are 
embosomed in jet? Without it the sky 
would wear no jewelry, neither would' God 
put on His breast the jewelry of mercy. 

Fourthly, the sun, and fixed stars, and 
nebulae are found to be self-luminous ; the 
moon, the planets, the comets, and the 
zodiacal light shine only by the light that 
Comes from these. So the Gospel light. 
Jesus Christ is the self-luminous light. 
Do you see that redeemed host yonder 
shining? They reflect their light from Him. 


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And that is what Jesus meant when He 
said, ‘‘I am the light of the world.” 

If a man is confronted by what is pur- 
ported to be a ghost, he pronounces it well- 
authenticated flesh and bloocT just as soon as 
he sees it cast a shadow. So just as soon 
as the heavenly bodies emit and reflect light 
we know that they are true matter. And 
likewise when a soul emits and reflects the 
light of the Son of God we know that he 
is of the genuine. 

Finally, throughout eternal space, so far 
as the assisted eye has reached, there is 
found a unique system that pervades the 
whole. That group of five stars forming 
the letter V is called Hyades — rainy Hyades, 
said the ancients. That cluster a little 
farther to the west is the Pleiades, Job’s 
Pleiades, with their sweet influence. And 
here, stretching across the whole hemi- 
sphere, like a white fog bank with torches 
in it, is the Milky Way, inadvertently made 
by Hercules when an infant, say the old 
poets. So had we time to review the sky 
we would, on close study, find perfect ar- 


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rangement. The very first thing we meet 
in life is an unvarying system of things, and 
that is the last thing we see in space. Then 
is it astonishing that the spiritual world has 
its system? If there were not a plan of 
salvation, would we not be incredulous ? 

At last these stars are old acquaintances 
of ours. So far as scholars have been able 
to observe, the matter that composes the 
stars has the appearance of that which com- 
poses our earth. If the moon is looked at 
through a telescope, a rugged surface of 
mountains and valleys is seen. While with 
the more distant the glass does not serve so 
well, the telescopic aspect gives the impres- 
sion of earth-like surface. “What!” you 
say ; “dirt and clay that high in space shining 
with the luster of a crystal !” And when 
you get to Heaven, and see the Lord, and 
the glorified bodies of the saints, who have 
suffered under the same restrictions as you, 
and who are of like composition, “What! 
these lives of the clay and earth, who toiled 
in the city store, or on the county farm, up 


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here glowing in divine attire !” Oh, yes, 
they are old acquaintances of ours. 

And that is part of God’s plan of salva- 
tion. He prefers not the jewels of crystal, 
but the jewels of grace. And as all valu- 
able crystals are transformations of carbon- 
ate substances, or coal, so are all the crystals 
of grace transformations of the ignorance 
and perversity of sin. 

Have you noticed the principles of this 
system? Righteousness and sin, non-con- 
demnation and condemnation. These have 
no affinity for each other. And if that which 
is of sin, and condemnation ever enjoys 
righteousness and non-condemnation, it 
must be made over, and have instilled within 
it affinities for righteousness and non-con- 
demnation, and then they will enjoy associa- 
tion. That “making anew” is the sole work 
of the Savior, and in the divine plan. And 
to make anew the soul He takes up his abode 
therein, and gives that work His constant 
attention. 


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THE GOSPEL STORY OF SALT. 

Salt is good. — Mark 9:50. 

Salt is to the physical world what Grace 
is to the spiritual. First, it is representative 
of Grace in that of its abundance. In 
alchemy salt was one of the three funda- 
mental substances, which were sulphur, 
mercury and salt. In the chemistry of 
Paracelsus all matter is composed in varying 
proportions of salt. It was the firm co- 
herent principle, or the fiery or the com- 
bustible. Nearly three per cent, by weight, 
of the ocean is made up of salt, and beds 
of it are found in strata of all geological 
periods from the Silurian up. It is found 
in the saline lakes and most all rivers. It 
is in the very air that we breathe. All mam- 
mals must have it or thev die. 

Not only in ocean, in air, and beneath the 
earth’s surface do we find it. Turn to 
yonder terraced hill, Khasm Usdum, on the 
southwestern shores of the Dead Sea. Here 
a cliff of solid rock salt from thirty to sixty 


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feet high, capped by white marl, extends for 
a distance of nearly seven miles along the 
shore of the lake. And the entire Dead Sea, 
in length forty-seven miles, its greatest 
breadth ten miles, is a mass of liquid boiling 
salt, piling high salt reefs upon its shores. 
Upon its salt borders cities are built. Sur- 
rounding it are great salt valleys, upon one 
of which David fought a victorious battle 
with the Edomites. Why go so far as 
Palestine? Salt is found to a greater or 
less extent in most all countries. You can 
take the morning train and go to the salt 
mines. Especially is it abundant in Eng- 
land, Germany, Switzerland and the Aus- 
tralian Alps ; in India, both in the salt range 
of the Punjab and in the great salt lake of 
Sambur in Rajputana; in China and North 
America. In Galicia, a province of Austria, 
among the mines of salt there are two hun- 
dred and eighty miles of underground 
passages. Salt is universal and a necessity, 
and in this it is illustrative of the Grace of 
God. 

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salt symbolizes Grace. Salt is obtained by 
evaporation, or freezing of the water of the 
ocean, of saline lakes or wells, or by mining 
in beds of rock salt. Hence we see that 
before salt is had there must be a yielding, 
a decomposition of former substances. And 
in this salt is representative of the Grace 
of God in our lives. Before Grace is in- 
stalled in the soul there must be a yielding, 
a giving up, a decomposition of previous 
character, and then the sparkling life of 
Grace appears. 

Thirdly, in its power to achieve salt is 
emblematic of Grace. Salt is the chief 
source of chlorin and soda, and hence has 
many and important uses in chemistry and 
industrial arts. For the disintegration of 
obstacles, for the trials and experiments of 
life, and for the constructive efforts of man 
to achieve Grace is an essential adjunct. 

Fourthly, in its disposition to reverse des- 
tinies salt is symbolical of Grace. The Dead 
Sea receives the waters of the Jordan, El 
Hessi, El Fireh, Arnon, Zerka Ma’in, 
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the Dead Sea, like all other salt lakes, has 
no outlet, the consequence is that the waters 
which enter it pass off in the form of vapor 
into the atmosphere. The quantity of water 
poured into the basin of the Dead Sea must 
be very great, especially in April and May, 
when the Jordan is swollen by the melting 
of the snow in the Lebanon range. But. 
such is the dryness of the air and the heat 
of the sun’s rays in the Ghor that this- 
increased supply fails permanently to raise 
the surface, which seems only to rise and 
fall within the limits of ten to fifteen feet 
between the months of October and May, as- 
estimated by Dr. Robinson. 

Why this condition of evaporation? 
Within the salt that fiery, combustible 
chlorinate, the child of salt, which has its 
maturity in that greenish-yellow, very 
poisonous, liquefiable gaseous element, with 
an offensive odor, which, with its remark- 
able affinity for hydrogen, an essen- 
tial of water, enables it to decompose 
water. Hence the properties of the salt lay 
in wait for the inflowing waters, and clasp 


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hands with the hydrogen, the element of 
water, and together they throw the inpour- 
ing streams heavenward in the form of 
vapor, to seek the glories of the sky. And 
in this salt is illustrative of Grace. Grace 
lies in wait for the incoming souls, and 
clasps hands with the best that is in them, 
and turns them heavenward to discover the 
glorious beauty of the eternal Day, and bids 
them linger amid the splendid promises of a 
loving, pitying, wooing Mercy. 

Fifthy, in its beauty salt is illustrative of 
Grace. In Galicia, down in the mines of 
salt, including about two hundred and eighty 
miles of underground passages, are chapels, 
cathedrals, theaters, halls of reception, and 
the altars are crystaline, the columns are 
crystaline, the ceilings are crystaline. When 
the emperor, and the princes, and the lord- 
ship of the land come, all this is lighted up, 
and the scene is matchless for beauty. The 
mighty men walk through, some to worship 
in chancels, some to be entertained in the 
theaters, and all the floor, all the pillars, all 
the ceiling are of crystal. 


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Salt is beautiful to the naked eye, but put 
it under a microscope and you see the stars, 
the splinters, the shafts, and the bridges of 
fire-glint of the sun. No human skill has 
ever put in Alhambra or St. Peter’s such 
marvelous beauty as God has put in one 
crystal of salt. An angel would need to 
take all of time with an infringement upon 
eternity to sketch the beauty of that which 
we sometimes cast aside as of no importance. 

And I must tell you that the Grace of 
God is beautiful and beautifying. Have 
you observed a soul charged and lustrous 
with it ? I have seen it bring from the 
blackest characters of sin a sparkling crystal 
of purity. I have seen it brace up the 
stooped shoulders, put briskness into the 
step, twinkle in the eye, lifelike beauty in the 
cheek. I have seen it hang pictures on the 
walls of homes. Put down cheery carpets. 
Hoist windows and drive the foul airs of a 
sin-contaminated breath from the premises, 
and permeate every room with glory. I 
have seen Grace call together parents and 
children in a love-abiding home and bathe 


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them in the sublime raptures of heaven. I 
have seen it rob a growling husband and 
father of his peevish heart, cast from his 
brow the frown, and from his walk the 
stagger, and touch up his old sin-abused 
body, and adorn it with the splendors of the 
temple of the Holy Ghost. And Solomon 
in all of his glory was not arrayed like one 
of these. Never minimize for a moment the 
wondrous beauty of the crystal salt. But 
all the grandeur of the sun-lit earth, be- 
witched and wooed at nightfall by the 
dazzling planets in the skies afar, can never 
compare with the infinitesimal touch of the 
glories of Grace. 

The horse of the Rev. Dr. Eastman, Sec- 
retary of the American Tract Society, dur- 
ing the battle of Sedam, struck him on the 
knee-pan. His leg swelled and stiffened, 
until the pain became almost unendurable. 
When he could no longer stand, he gave his 
horse to a servant, and laid himself down on 
the ground. As he lay there suffering and 
thinking, he. heard a voice, “O, my God P 
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a place as this? He listened again, and a 
prayer began ; it was from a wounded sol- 
dier. “How can I get at him?” was his 
first impulse. He tried to draw up his 
stiffened limb, but he could not rise. He 
put his arm around a sapling, drew up his 
sound foot, and tried to extend the other 
without bending, that he might walk, but 
he fell back in the effort, jarred through as 
though he had been stabbed. He then 
thought, “I can roll.” And over and over 
he rolled in pain and blood, and by dead 
bodies, until he fell against the dying man, 
and there he preached Christ and prayed. 
At length one of the line officers came up 
and said : “Where’s the chaplain ? One of 
the staff officers is dying.” “Here he is, 
here he is !” cried out the sufferer. Can you 
come and see a dying officer?” “I can not 
move ; I had to roll myself to this dying man 
to talk to him.” “If I detail two men to 
carry you, can you go?” “Yes.” They took 
him gently up and carried him. And that 
livelong night the two men bore him over 
the field, and laid him down beside bleeding, 


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dying men, while he preached Christ and 
prayed. Lying thus on his back, the 
wounded chaplain could not even see his 
audience, but must look always heavenward 
into the .eyes of the peaceful stars — em- 
blems of God’s love, which even that day 
of blood had not soiled or made dim. But 
the eternal brightness of that suffering, 
sympathizing, pleading soul was more beau- 
tiful than all the glittering skies. The 
crystal salt is startling for beauty, but the 
love of the dying chaplain was heavenly lit 
with divinity. 

Sixthly, salt is a preservative, and in this 
it is emblematic of Grace. The antiseptic 
properties of salt have led to its general use 
in preserving all organic substances from 
decay. It is a preventative to the develop- 
ment of intestinal worms. The energies 
would flag, the lungs would struggle with 
the air, slow fever would creep through the 
brain, the heart would flutter, and the life 
would cease without salt. It is essential to 
the living. Also by draining the moisture 
from lifeless fleshy substances in use for 


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food, salt preserves them from decomposi- 
tion. Hence as a preservative salt is essen- 
tial for both the living and the dead. 

And I must say to you that the Grace 
that Christ preaches is the healthiest thing 
in this world. It will calm the pulse, soothe 
the nerves, quiet the spleen, and invigorate 
the whole body. When the Grace of God 
encompasses the earth disease will be at 
its minimum. Men will live to be a hundred 
and become tired and say, “It is time for me 
to go away/’ And then pass away without 
a groan. 

Years ago in Philadelphia there was an 
aged bank president, somewhere in the nine- 
ties. After the close of a business day he 
came home and lay down on the sofa, and 
said to his daughter, “My time has come, 
and I must go away from you.” “Why, 
father,” she said, “are you sick ?” “Oh, no, 
I am not sick, but the time has come for me 
to go away. Have it put in the morning 
papers about my decease, so they won’t ex- 
pect me in business circles.” And instantly 
he ceased to breathe. What a glorious 


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transition from this world ! That is the ideal 
way, the way Enoch went. 

Grace is essential to the body. It* rolled 
away the stone from the stone-hewn tomb in 
which the Savior lay, and clutched from 
death His torn, lacerated body. It, too, like 
•salt, is essential to your dead body, if you 
will come forth in glory. I know there are 
insoluble mysteries, and many doubts thrust 
at the resurrection of the body by modern 
scholarship, but I must forever believe that 
my old body, in which I formed all the 
earthly relations of my soul, will of necessity 
forever sustain unique relations to this soui 
of mine, the soul which is the lover of 
human relations. Mother’s-, wife’s, baby’s 
face must never be lost from my soul. The 
bodies that I love must sustain, and forever, 
some special relation to me. Brethren, 
Grace is essential to our dead. It pulled 
Jesus’ body out of death, and we must have 
faith to believe it will somehow preserve 
the forms of all them who sleep in the dust. 
Grace, like salt, is essential to both the liv- 
ing and the dead if they will keep. 


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While I believe that Grace preserves the 
body, its power is chiefly seen in the soul. 
It takes that which is hard, and cold, and 
repulsive, and casts it out. It makes the 
soul over again. It makes life glow with 
a new promise. Go all through the under- 
ground falls, of Weilitzka, and through the 
underground kingdoms of Holstadt, and 
show me anything so grandly beautiful as 
this eternal crystal ? It throws a beauty 
over the life, a beauty over the heart. Christ 
comes into the soul and casts over it the 
glow of a summer garden, as He says, “I 
am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the val- 
ley.” He throws over life the beauty of a 
spring morning as He says, “I am the light 
of the world.” He sends an energizing 
thrill throughout the earth as He says, “Ye 
are the salt of the earth.” Because you are 
heirs of Grace. Yes, Grace is the salt of 
the universe. Salt in its abundance ; salt in 
the condition of its being; salt in its power 
to achieve ; salt in its disposition to reverse 
destinies ; salt in its beauty ; salt in its keep- 
ing power of both the living and the dead. 


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Let me close with the words of John 

Newton : 

“Amazing grace ! how sweet the sound 
That saved a wretch like me ! 

I once was lost, but now am found, 

Was blind, but now I see. 

’Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear, 
And Grace my fears relieved; 

How precious did that grace appear 
The hour I first believed. 

“Through many dangers, toils and snares 
I have already come ; 

’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, 
And grace will lead me home. 

The Lord has promised good to me, 

His word mv hope secures ; 

He will my shield and portion be 
As long as life endures. 

“Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail, 
And mortal life shall cease, 

I shall possess, within the veil, 

A life of joy and peace. 

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, 
The sun forbear to shine, 

But God, who called me here below, 

Will be forever mine.” 


APPENDIX 


INDEX TO APPENDIX. 


Battaglia Bros.. Fruit Dealers 192 

Citizens’ National Bank 197 

Covington Coal Company. The 201 

Covington Savings Bank and Trust Co 199 

Cree, G. W., Real Estate . .. 196 

Depenbrock, Henry. Grocer 193, 194 

Gottschalk, F. S. Stoves 198 

Hatfield Coal Company. The 199 

Heckman Floral Company 198' 

Kloo, Carl H., Photographer 20 1 

Marx. Louis & Bros., Furniture 189, 190 

Pieck, E. L.. Druggist 197 

Rivard. Harry F.. Meat Dealer 19l 

Roetken. Alfred J., Wall Paper 198 

Schroetter. H. A. Real Estate 202 

Stephenson. Harry E., Dry Goods 196 

Underhill, John T. Plumber 200 

Walker, Ed. E. & Co. Real E^t-He 194. 195 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


189 


LOUIS MARX AND BROTHERS, 
516, 518, 520 and 522 MADISON AVE- 
NUE, COVINGTON, AND 840 MON- 
MOUTH STREET, NEWPORT. These 
brothers, Louis, Simon and Milton, began 
in the FURNITURE BUSINESS in Cov- 
ington, January, 1896, at No. 521 Madison 
Avenue. Two years later they added No.' 
523, more than doubling their capacity for 
business. Six years later their business had 
outgrown even their own expectation, and 1 
they secured the entire property of what 
was formerly the Latonia Hotel, and erected 
there a four-story furniture house, contain- 
ing a store-room capacity of 65,000 square 
feet, the most elaborate furniture house in 
Kentucky. This large building is found to 
be inadequate space for their great business, 
and there is now in process o'f erection in the 
rear of their furniture house a new adjunct, 
250 feet in length and four stories high,' 
adding to their present store rooms 25,000 
square feet, making a grand total of their 
Madison Avenue store of 90,000 square feet. 
To illustrate, if one room- 50 feet wide were 


190 


A HISTORY OF THE 


constructed of this entire space the room 
would be about six average squares in 
length, or almost one-half mile. All this 
interior is filled with furniture of the latest 
designs. 

The Marx Brothers started in business in 
Newport in a small way seventeen years 
ago. They have extended the building of 
this business several times, and intend to 
add another story next year. 

This rapid growth of the business of the 
Marx Brothers is not surprising when one 
knows the genial brothers. Through their 
adaptability to their business they have ac- 
quired the art of buying in vast variety of 
styles, and making such deals as to enable 
them to sell the best furniture at astonish- 
ingly low prices. Then again, being self- 
made men, they have a peculiar interest in 
those whose income is limited, but who need 
the comforts of a well-furnished home as 
much as the rich. This the Marx Brothers 
have made possible for the smallest income. 
A little cash payment, followed by small 
monthly payments, will create a new home, 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


191 


and a wealth of happiness for young mar- 
ried people. If. contemplating the furnish- 
ing of a new home, be .sure to visit the Marx 
Brothers’ palace of furniture. 

HARRY F. RIVARD, BUTCHER, 
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER 
IN BEEF, VEAL AND MUTTON. 
STORE, 235 PIKE STREET; SLAUGH- 
TER HOUSE, LEWIS STREET. Tele- 
phone South 239 — L. The selecting of food 
for a family is one of the most responsible 
Obligations of parents. It is not best that, 
your children should be excessively fed, but 
it is absolutely essential that they have pure 
food. The gravest question of food select- 
ing is that of meat. It never pays to run to 
the man who has meats at the lowest prices. 
Keep away from him. Better give your 
child a much smaller meat diet and have it 
fresh and pure. Every summer Chicago and 
other great cities number their thousands of 
children victims of poisonous meats. If you. 
can not afford the best quality, better turn 
vegetarian. However, in our climate some 
meat is necessary to withstand disease. 


192 


A HISTORY OF THE 


Very little sweet or starchy diet is essential 
to the healthy, brawny development of chil- 
dren. Good beef steak is very esisential. It 
invigorates the tissues, stimulates the ener- 
gies, builds to the faculties of the mind, and 
averts those maladies incident to enfeebled, 
starved bodies. The great masters have 
been eaters, of choice meats. If you want 
to make sure of procuring the choicest meat 
foods, call upon Mr. Rivard. He will not 
sell you impure meats. 

THE BATTAGLIA BROTHERS, 702 
AND 704 MAIN STREET, CORNER 
SEVENTH, DEALERS IN ALL KINDS 
OF CHOICE FRUITS AND VEGE- 
TABLES. The acids of fruits are essential 
to the digestive organs. Fresh vegetables 
afford a nutriment that makes the mind 
and 'body clear and active. So many peo- 
ple think they can not afford fruit. It is 
better to give your money for good 
oranges, apples- and other fruits than pay 
it out for sick children. Never buy faulty 
fruit because it is cheaper. Faulty fruit 
is diseased fruit, just as people are dis- 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


193 


eased. Feed it to your children, and their 
health is impaired. For the best quali- 
ties and carefully assorted fruit go to the 
Battaglia Brothers. They have estab- 
lished a reputation in fruit supplies, and 
will not sell you diseased goods. 

HENRY DEPENBROCK, WHOLE- 
SALE GROCER AND FLOUR DEAL- 
ER, SOUTH-WEST CORNER PIKE 
AND CRAIG STREETS, TELEPHONE 
SOUTH 455. To support comfortably his- 
family is the first duty of man. Every 
transaction honest and clear adds to the joy 
and respect of his home. He must not,, 
therefore, allow himself to become en- 
grossed in debt ; he must live within his 
means. The grocery bill is the hardest to 
reduce. The reason is so many trade on 
the book, and no man can sell as cheaply on 
paper as he can for cash. Too, one with a 
book is more apt to buy unnecessary things. 
Count out how much money you have to 
spend for groceries for the week and go to, 
or call up Mr. Depenbrocks grocery, and he 


194 


A HISTORY OF THE 


will save you 20 cents on the dollar. His 
goods are always fresh, for he sells out his 
stock every few days, so great are his sales. 
His goods have no time to get old 011 the 
shelves. There is no man in the city that 
saves more money for a family than he. 

Starting in the grocery business with his 
mother, Mr. Depenbrock by his honesty and 
enterprise has worked his way up, and now 
is one of Covington’s most aggressive mer- 
chants. Visit his store, price, and try his 
goods, and increase the amount of money 
you lay aside weekly for emergencies. 


ED. E. WALKER AND COMPANY, 
FIRE INSURANCE. Special Facilities 
For Placing Large Lines. REAL ESTATE 
AGENTS, SURETY BONDS, 519 MAD- 
ISON AVENUE. Telephone SOUTH 
149. To make a home is the highest privi- 
lege delegated to mankind. Pity that man 
who has lived and died and failed in this. 
A home is something more than food and 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHUR r 195 

clothing. The true husband and father 
must be responsible for the comfort and 
well-being of his family. To effect this, 
there must be one place in this wide world 
that is dearer to them than all others — “our 
home.” Have you this happy possession? 
Happy that man, however meager his in- 
come, who lives in his own house. Why 
spend foolishly and sinfully every week 
money which, if applied as payments, would 
soon pay for a comfortable home? Ed. E. 
Walker and Company will explain to you 
how you can live in your own house, move 
within the next few days, and pay for it as 
you would pay rent. 

In these days of accident do not neglect 
your insurance. The cost is so little that 
a few dollars will insure your household 
goods for several years. Ed. E. Walker 
and Company represent the safest insurance 
companies. All losses promptly settled'. 
Inquire of them about insurance, and let 
them explain to you the plan of their surety 
bonds. 


196 


A HISTORY OF THE 


HARRY E. STEPHENSON, successor 
to GROTE, MARSCHALL and COM- 
PANY, 28-30 PIKE STREET. Telephone 
South 207. DRY GOODS, NOTIONS and 
GENTS’ FURNISHINGS. Home is not a 
“sweet home” unless endeavors are made 
for its well keeping. To neglect the fur- 
nishings of the linen closets, the dressers, 
is to embarrass the wife. Just how, on a 
meager income, a man is to take the best 
care of his home is a problem many are 
struggling with. Mr. Stephenson can help 
you. One of Covington’s boys, he has re- 
cently opened up a fine assortment of DRY 
GOODS and NOTIONS and GENTS’ 
SUPPLIES that will interest every home. 
Visit his new store and take advantage of 
the new prices. 

Do you want to SELL your property? 
Do you want to BUY a home? Do you 
want to EXCHANGE it for other property ? 
G. W. CREE, REAL ESTATE and IN- 
SURANCE. Office, 402 SCOTT STREET, 
Covington, Ky. ’Phone South 249. Resi- 
dence, 1807 Madison Avenue. ’Phone 
South 535— L. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


197 


H. Felt man President. 

Jos. Feltman Vice President. 

B. J. Linnemann Cashier. 

CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK. 

Capital Stock $200,000.00 

Surplus and Undivided Profits. .. 75,167.01 
Interest paid on Time Savings Deposits. 

Bonds Bought and Sold. 

Safety Deposit Boxes, for Rent. 

E. L. PIECK, Druggist, Northwest Cor- 
ner of Sixth and Main Streets, and South- 
east Corner of Fifth and Madison Avenue. 
Sickness will come in every home. Fresh, 
pure drugs are essential to the well being 
of your family. To provide these for a 
community the most reliable, studious, up- 
to-date druggists should fill our prescrip- 
tions and dispense our medicines. A dingy, 
loosely kept drug store or a sleepy druggist 
should not be patronized. Life or death is 
measured out to us by them. Visit E. L. 
Pieck’s drug stores, inspect them closely 
and see how they compare with the most 
enterprising, up-to-date stores of our great 
cities. 


198 


A HISTORY OF THE 


Best and cheapest place 'for FLOWERS 
for all occasions. HECKMAN FLORAL 
COMPANY, 734 Madison Avenue, ’Phone 
South 784, Covington, Ky. 


ROETKEN WALL PAPER COM- 
PANY, Alfred W. Roetken, Proprietor, 
826 Madison Avenue, Covington, Ky. 
’Phone South 814. 


STOVES, RANGES, FURNACES, 
F. S. Gottschalk, 70-72 PIKE STREET, 
Covington, Ky. ’Phone South 320. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


199 


FROM MINE TO COAL BIN— That 
is the way we handle COAL. We own the 
MINES, STEAMBOATS, BARGES and 
ELEVATOR. Try a ton of our PLY- 
MOUTH COAL. THE HATFIELD 
COAL COMPANY, 622 Madison Avenue, 
Covington, Ky. ’Phone S. 787. 


THE COVINGTON SAVINGS BANK 
AND TRUST COMPANY (Incorporat- 
ed), Northeast Corner Sixth Street and 
Madison Avenue, Covington, Ky. PAID- 
UP CAPITAL, $100,000. STOCKHOLD- 
ERS’ LIABILITY, $100,000. 3 PER 

CENT PAID ON DEPOSITS, Acts as 
Trustees, Administrators, etc., etc. OFFI- 
CERS : Jno. P. Ernst, Pres. ; John A. Simp- 
son, Vice Pres. ; C. W. Simrall, Sec’y. and 
Treas. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Jno. 


200 


A HISTORY OF THE 


P. Ernst, J. T. Hatfield, Dr. John M. Blau; 
John A. Simpson, Jas. C. Ernst, L. J. 
Crawford, Newport, Ky. ; C. W. Nagel, 
Newport, Ky. Open from 8:30 a.m. to 
4:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. 
Telephone South 214. 


JOHN T. UNDERHILL, PLUMBER 
and GASFITTER, Telephone S. 280, No. 
412 Scott Street, Covington, Ky. Why live 
in a house that is your own without the 
convenience of a bath room, hot and cold 
water? For a long life a daily bath is 
necessary. Much of the disease, as now 
prevails in New Orleans, is caused by lack 
of sewerage, closets and well-arranged 
water drains. Insist that your landlord give 
you good sanitation. If you own your own 
home, for the health of your family do not’ 
neglect the means of sanitation. Mr. Jno. 
T. Underhill will explain to you how it 
may be had at least expense. 


MAIN ST. M. E. CHURCH. 


201 


CARL H. KLOO, PHOTOGRAPHER, 
43 Pike street. To fill life with things not 
to be regretted of one should never put off 
for tomorrow what should be done today.- 
Have you your family likeness? Suppose 
you should wake up some morning and find 
baby very ill, wife or husband suddenly 
taken with fatal disease? The most inex- 
cusable grief is that “I have no likeness of 
him !” Mr. Kloo, who has made photo- 
graphs for the groups of this book, will 
make photos of your family at very little 
expense to you. Visit his studio and let 
him advise you. 


When ordering Coal for the winter, re- 
member the COVINGTON COAL COM- 
PANY, DEALER IN RAYMOND CITY, 
BELMONT, SEMI-CANNEL, PITTS- 
BURG COAL, COKE, SLACK, AN- 
THRACITE AND SMOKELESS COAL; 
also, SAND, LIME, CEMENT and ALL 
KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIAL. 
Office, 717 MADISON AVENUE. Tele- 
phone South 75. Elevator, Foot of Thir- 


202 


A HISTORY OF THE 


teenth and Licking River. Telephone 
South 35. Arnold Schweinefuss, General 
Manager. 

Fire Insurance is an absolute necessity in 
these days, and no one should be without 
it, even if his possessions are but limited. 
The rates are so reasonable that no excuse 
exists for not insuring. A good, reliable 
agent is essential in order to effect the as- 
surance properly, and to settle a loss 
promptly when it occurs. H. A. SCHROET- 
TER, 432 MADISON AVENUE, has 
been for over twenty-five years in this busi- 
ness. As an INSURANCE man and REAL 
ESTATE broker he has established a rec- 
ord. Rentals are his specialty. Place your 
property in his charge. Consult before you 
purchase or insure, H. A. SCHROETTER. 


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INDE X. 


Page 

Ames. Bishop E. R 19 

Andrews. Bishop E. G 81 

Bailey, Rev. H. W 101 

Belville, Rev. S. S 15 

Bickley, Rev. F. D. T 104 

Black. Rev. W. H. and Wife 18 

Black. Rev. W. H 44 

Bowman. Bishop Thomas 67 

Bristow, Rev. James H 30 

Buckton, Mrs. S. A 93 

Choir. Junior 142, 143 

Choir. Senior 138. 139 

Church. Main Street 8 

Clark. Bishop D. W 27 

Cranston. Bishop Earl 117 

Darling-ton, Rev. Newton W 21 

Dover,. Rev John G 122 

Early Members 48 

FitzGerald. Bishop J. N 116 

Foss. Bishop C. D 92 

Foster. Bishop R. S 84 

Golay, Miss Edith 129 

Goodsell. Bishop D. A 133 

Hanford. Rev. Thomas 76 

Harris, Bishop W. L 88 

Harrop, Rev. F. W 7 

Haven Bishop E. 0 77 

Hearne, Jonathan D 152 

Howes. Rev. C. J &2 

Hurst. Bishop John F 114 

Joyce. Bishop I. W 123 

Kingsley, Bishop C 33 

Ladies’ Aid Society 136 


INDEX. 


Lashbrook, Rev. R. D 23 

Mallalieu. Bishop W. F 103 

Merrill. Rev. Stephen M 17 

Merrill. Bishop S. M 57 

Miller. Robert T 113 

Morris. Bishop Thomas A 14 

Newton. Rev. James Marcus 125 

Newton. Mrs. James Marcus 128 

Newton. Maridale Hearne 120 

Ninde Bishop W. X 115 

Official Board 132 

Park. Mrs. Susan B 150 

Parsonage. The Main Street 148 

Peck. Bishop Jesse T 69 

Sanford. W. M 35 

Scott, Bishop Levi 20 

Shepherd, Rev. E. L 118 

Shinkle. Amos 107 

Simpson. Bishop M 25 

Soden. Samuel 61 

Soden. Mrs. Samuel 62 

Some Main Street People 145 

Speed, Mrs. Fanny 119 

Spellmeyer. Bishop Henry ft 

Spruill. Rev. W. F. T 55 

Stevenson. Rev. D 74 

Stubbins Rev. B. A 70 

Thomson, Bishop E 32 

Vincent. Bishop J. H 98 

Walden. Bishop J. M •, 86 

Walsh. Rev. John D 89 

Warren, Bishop H. W 135 

Wiley. Bishop I. W 54 

W. F. M. S.. A Group of the 144 

Zimmerman. Rev. J. W 68 












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